ENTER THE STORY - A NEW TESTAMENT READING SCHEDULE

Note: It was a highly accelerated biG banG into the universe that is,  like a clock not running, and then,  it was set in motion. “The lion will eat straw 

like the ox.. 

the bear will graze 

with the cow” Isaiah 11:7. 
(But first Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4.)

{Ps.91,46,23, Rev.7:15-17}

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List of Some Translator Errors, due to partial disbelief? ~~ Not including God’s riddles/hiding things in plain sight. ~~ Changed “all” whenever possible, to “all things” Rev.21:5, Eph.1:10, Jn.13:3, 1Cor.15:27, five times! And so repeating what 5 times? ..And more. But not 2Tim.3:16 or 1Cor.15:28, for example. ~~ Often rendered not into never and aion/eon into forever. ~~ Translating hamartia - missing the mark, into “sin” (trespass) misses the mark a little. (God is Life, and “is perfect” Mt.5:48, a conundrum for imperfect/missing the mark. But no option to stray in Eden, and creation would have to be an ant farm.) ~~ Of course five separate words turned into ‘hell’, even pit when “dust of” is in the verse & Ps.30:9. The three mentions of lake of fire are at very large, fiery events. Not very understandable in 95 CE or thereabouts, Is.24:20, Rev.10:4 (Ps.91,46,23, Rev7:15-17)

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Division is a siren call, Is.24:20, Rev.10:4.

Verses on this blog are paraphrasrd.

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Ephesians 5 17-27

  a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

 🍃🕊️  reading & study  🕊️🍃

04/02 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

   Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

17 -  Therefore don’t be senseless, but understand what the will of the Lord is.18 Don’t get drunk with wine, in which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 talking with one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Be happy! Sing songs and make melody to the Lord! {Musicians!} 20 Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name [onoma - authority, character, cause, name] of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 Submit yourselves to one another in reverence of him. 22 Wives to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife like Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in all things to their husbands.

     25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself for the church/people, 26 that he might sanctify the church/people, having cleansed them by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that the church/people might be holy, and without blemish.            

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 5:28-6:3

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

MATTHEW 20 17-28

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

 🍃🕊️reading & study 🕊️🍃

     04/02 - GospeL Verses 

17 - As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and said, 18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the leaders, the chief priests and scribes, and they’ll condemn him to death. 19 They’ll deliver him over to the Gentiles/nations (via Rome) to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

     20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee [John and James] came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him a favor. 21 He asked her, “What do you ask?” She said to him, “Tell me these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left, in your kingdom.” 22 Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I’m to drink?” They said to him, “We’re able.” 23 He said, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it’s for those for whom it’s been prepared by my Father.”

     24 And when the other ten disciples heard of it, they were indignant at the other two. 25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It’s not so among you. For whoever would be great among you must be as a servant. 27 And whoever would be first among you, must be as a slave. 28 Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many [polus - multitude].” [1Tim.2:6 - who gave himself as a ransom for all (pas) which has been revealed at the proper time. 1Cor.15:22-24,28 w/ Mt.13:33, key word three, barley, wheat, grape. 27,28 is five times “pas”. Mt.13:30 is Rev.16:14-15-16 and Mt.25:1-13(10).]

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Tomorrows verses - Luke 16:1-15

A.M. Gospel verses 

P.M. from the letters, in order

Through Acts & Revelation regularly.

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 5 9-16

     a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

    🍃🕊️ reading & study  🕊️🍃

04/01 ~ From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

     Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

9 - The fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true. 10 Try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead bring them to light. 12 For it’s shameful even to speak of things that are done in secret. 13 Everything exposed by light, becomes visible, 14 and everything becoming visible, becomes known. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you.” 15 Pay attention then to how you walk, not as unwise but wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are quickly past.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 5:17-27

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

ACTS 27 1-24

   BooK of Acts of the First Believers

                      Shipwreck! (Paraphrased)

1 - And so, when it was decided we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustus Cohort named Julius. 2 And embarking upon a ship which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. 3 The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and let him go and visit friends and receive hospitality.

     4 Putting out to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus (sailed the channel between Cyprus and the mainland) because the winds were against us. 5 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 6 And there the centurion Julius found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and he put us on board.

     7 We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with some difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind didn’t allow us to go further, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. 8 Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

     9 Much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous being late in the season. Even the (Day of Atonement) fast day was already over. And Paul advised them, 10 saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” 11 But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship, than to what Paul was saying.12 And because the harbor wasn’t suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea, hoping to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, which faced both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

     13 And when the south wind blew gently, supposing it a favorable wind, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, staying close to shore. 14 But soon a tempestuous wind, called a northeaster, swept down from the land. 15 And when the ship was caught and couldn’t resist the wind, we gave way and were driven along. 16 Then running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship's lifeboat. 17 After hoisting it up, they used ropes (wrapped round a few times, called frapping) to undergird the ship. Then, fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis [two always moving quicksands - the terror of all Mediterranean sailors] they lowered the main mast, and thus were driven along. 18 Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to toss over the cargo. 19 And on the third day we threw the ship's furniture and luggages overboard with our own hands. 20 When neither sun nor stars were seen for many days, and no small tempestuous wind lay upon us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. 21 And since all had been without food for a long while, Paul stood up and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. 22 Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you! But only of the ship. 23 For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong, and of whom I worship, 24 and he said to me, ‘Don’t fear, Paul, for you will stand before Caesar. And God has granted you the lives of all those who sail with you.’”

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An ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study

JOHN 11 38-54

  🍃🕊️ 04/01 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                  (paraphrased)

38 - Then Jesus, deeply moved, came to the tomb, which was a cave. A stone lay against it, 39 so Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of Lazarus, the dead man, said, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”

     41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looking upward said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I know you always hear me. But I say this on account of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 And then he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And Lazarus, who had died, came out. His hands and feet were bound with linen strips, and his face was wrapped in a head cloth. Jesus said, “Unbind him, let him go free.”

     45 Many of the Judeans therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen this, believed in him. 46 But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the leaders, the chief priests and the Pharisees, gathered as a council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our seats and our nation.”

     49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing! 50 Nor do you understand that it’s better that one man die than the whole nation perish!” 51 He didn’t even say this of his own accord! But being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation. 52 And not for the nation [ethnos - people, nation] only, but also to gather into one, the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 And from that day on they made plans to have him put to death.

     54 So Jesus no longer walked openly among them. And he went to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed for a while with the disciples.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Matthew 20:17-28

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 5 1-8

03/31 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                  (paraphrased)

1 - Therefore try to be like God {who iS Love} as beloved children 2 and walk in love. Even as Christ loved us! And gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. {Imagine dying if you didn’t have to. Would anything less dramatic be able to reach every heart? Be able to appease eveRy conscience? Imperfection is an abyss of potential, both collective and individual. Heck pre-flood was hands off and look how that turned out.}

3 So sexual immorality {skirt chasing, etc!} and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you! As is proper among saints/believers. 4 Avoid foolish talk and crude joking, as out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 You can be sure of this, that anyone who is being sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous, that is, an idolater, is not inheriting the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Don’t let yourself be deceived by empty words, because of these things comes {instead} the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. {I’m convinced, God’s wrath is ‘code’ for cause and effect. As opposed to what? Creation as a mere ant farm? “The lion will eat straw like the ox. The bear will graze with the cow” Is.11:7.}

     7 So don’t become involved in such things. 8 for at one time you were without light [skotos - darkness, lacking light] but now you’re in the light of the Lord. Walk in that light, as children of light..

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 5:9-16

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

JOHN 11 28-37

🍃🕊️ 03/31 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                (paraphrased)

28 - After this, Martha went back into the house and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 When Mary heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. 31 When the Judeans/Hebrews/Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to weep. 32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and those who had come with her weeping also, he was deeply moved and troubled in his spirit. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 And Jesus wept. 36 So they said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some said, “Couldn’t he who opened the eyes of the blind man, also have kept this man from dying?”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - John 11:38-54

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 4 25-32

03/30 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                    (paraphrased)

25 - Therefore, having put away falsehood {phoniness and fraud} let each one of you speak the truth with their fellow (person) for we are members one of another. 26 If there is anger, don’t sin, and don’t let the sun go down on your anger, 27 giving no opportunity to the devil.

     28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let them labor, doing honest work with their own hands, so they may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Don’t speak poor, harmful or corrupting words, but only as is good for building up, as fits each occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be put far from you - along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another. Tenderhearted and forgiving one another, as God, in Christ, has forgiven you.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 5:1-8

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

JOHN 11 17-27

🍃🕊️ 03/30 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                 (paraphrased)

17 - When Jesus and the disciples arrived there, they found Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, 19 and many were there with Martha and Mary who had come to console them concerning their brother. 20 Mary and Martha were seated in the house and when Martha heard Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, 21 and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said, “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though they die [apothnéskó - die, perish, wither away] yet shall they live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall not die to the aion. Do you believe this?” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord. I believe you are the Christ (the Messiah) the Son of God, who is coming into the world.” {..OnLy begotten/straight out from God, one, forever preeminent and First/proto. Though he iS the prototype as well. Yes? He is “the seed” implanted.. Which seed to be nourished with Living Water which is the New Wine, and fed the Bread/Logos.. the written as well as the first and preeminent personified. The logos - “reasoning expressed in words” and expressed/fulfilled in Jesus. God’s blueprint and proto(type). How else to create able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? Isaiah 11:7 “the lion will eat straw like the ox,  the bear will graze with the cow”. ..But first this unavoidable, all important contrast allowed to run course.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - John 11:28-37

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 4 17-24

03/29 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians 

                   (paraphrased)

17 - Now this I (Paul) say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the nations do, in vanity of mind, 18 being darkened in understanding, their hearts hard, and alienated from God because of not knowing any better. 19 And so they’ve become careless and uncaring, pursuing every kind of impurity [akatharsia - from an adjective, derived from A - not, and katharós, cleansed, purged, (so) properly, not pure/lacking mixture, of "a wrong mix" the antonym, kathaírō means free from wrong mixture].

     20 Because that’s not the way you learned Christ, 21 assuming you’ve heard about him and been taught of and in him, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to a former way of life and is corrupted through the deceitfulness of human passions. 23 Instead be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which is created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness/purity of truth [alétheia - truth, straightforwardness] {genuineness}.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 4:25-32

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

JOHN 11 1-16

🍃🕊️ 03/29 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                (paraphrased)

1 - Lazarus of Bethany, the brother of Mary and her sister Martha, was ill. 2 It was Mary who later anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, your friend is ill!” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness doesn’t lead to death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

     5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 But, when he heard Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer where he was. 7 Then after two days said to the disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.” 8 The disciples said, “Rabbi, the leaders {those in seats of power they were keen to keep} were just now seeking to stone you! And are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, they won’t stumble, because there’s light to see by. 10 But if they walk in the night, they stumble, because they have no light, and the light isn’t in them.” 11 Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” 12 The disciples said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought he meant resting in sleep. 14 Then he told them plainly, “Lazarus has died. 15 And for your sake I’m glad I wasn’t there, so you may believe. Let’s go to him.” 16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to the rest, “Let us go too, that we may die with him.”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - John 11:17-27

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 4 11-16

03/28 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                    (paraphrased)

11 - And he gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints/believers for the work of building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity. That is, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. 14 That we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by waves and different winds of doctrine. Or by human schemes of craftiness, 15 but speaking the truth in love, will bring increase, in every way, into Christ, who is the head of us, the body of believers. 16 From him the whole body, is joined and fitted together by every joint with which it’s equipped, so that when each part is working properly, the body grows, building itself up in love.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; also cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 4:17-24.

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

LUKE 11 5-13

🍃🕊️ 03/28 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                (paraphrased)

5 - (His disciples had said, “Lord teach us to pray..) Jesus said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to them at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 someone has arrived on a long journey, and I have nothing to set before them’. 7 And the friend will answer, ‘Don’t bother me, the door is shut, my children are with me in bed and I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though they will not get up and give you anything because they are your friend, if you insist, they will rise and give you whatever you need. 9 And so I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For whoever will ask, will receive. Whoever seeks will find. And to whoever knocks, it will be opened. 11 What parent among you, if their child asks for a fish, will instead give them a serpent? 12 Or if they ask for an egg, will give them a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil [ponéros - evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful; from pónos - pain, laborious trouble] know how to give good gifts to your children - how much more, will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” {The answer to all things.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; also cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - John 11:1-16

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 4 1-10

03/27 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                  (paraphrased)

1 - Therefore I (Paul) a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you’ve been called, 2 with humility and gentleness. And with patience, bearing with one another in love. 3 Be eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in a bond of peace. 4 For there is one body and one Spirit {as there is one humanity with its beautiful branches}. As you were called to the one hope, that belongs to the calling. 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 That is why it says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive! And he gave gifts.” 9 And in saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth. 10 He who descended {to the earth}, is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all [pas - every, all, the whole].

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; also cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 4:11-16

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Revelation 2 18-29

BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study

18 - “And to the angel [angelo, aggelos - messenger] of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.’” {His eyes see, and he has walked through the fire.} 19 “‘I know your works, your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance, and that your later works are more than the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, but she is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food {doctrine} sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given ‘her’ time to repent [metanoeó - change mind, turn] but she refuses. 22 Behold {listen} I will [balló - throw, cast, put, place] her onto a sickbed {his ‘wrath’, is cause and effect} and those who commit adultery with her, into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23 and her children will be slain with death. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches minds and hearts, and it will be given to each according to their works. 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who don’t hold to this teaching, and have not known the depths of Satan, I don’t lay upon you any other burden. 25 Only hold fast what you have until I come. 26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works to the end, I will give authority [exousia - authority, power, right, jurisdiction] over the nations, 27 and they will shepherd them {who?} with a rod of iron {an unbreakable measure/measuring rod/truth} as when earthen pots are broken into pieces {before faith, we are a basket of pieces, a basket case, we are broken, in pottery, you break the clay and reshape it} - even as - I myself have received from my Father. {As I myself shepherded?} 28 And I will give to them the morning star. {“The stars are messengers”, “crowns of Life”, not metal.} 29 Whoever has an ear, let them hear. What the Spirit says. (To the churches [ekklésia - assembly, congregation, church, “the” Church, the whole body of Christian believers, {TO each believer}].’

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, cross references, etc.

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   📜🍞+🍷🕊️(+Logic)

Logic of things allowed to run their course..   

The Rev vision is told 3 times, joining at trumpet 7. The seal description-as their full effects-veils much. Vs.13:13 was by an office. Ongoing study.

LUKE 11 1-4

🍃🕊️ 03/27 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                (paraphrased)

1 - Jesus was in a quiet place praying, and when he was done praying, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples to pray.” 2 And he said, “When you pray, pray like this, ‘Father {in heaven}, hallowed be your name. your kingdom come, and your will be done upon Earth, as it is in heaven. 3 Give us this day our daily bread, 4 and forgive us our trespasses [harmartia - (our) missing the mark] as we forgive those who trespass against us. And let us not be led into temptation but deliver us from evil.’”

     {My Father in heaven, blessed and honored be your name.. Please let your kingdom come that it be upon earth as it is in heaven, saturated and full of your Spirit. Give me today all grace and spiritual bread I need.. And forgive my faults and flaws as I overlook other’s. And please don’t let me be led into  any evil or temptation, but keep me in your Presence. Keep us all in your Presence, Father, amen. …“yesterday I was in the grip of a foul spirit, today let me praise and give thinks..”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Luke 11:5-13

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 3 8-21

03/26 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

       Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                  (paraphrased)

8 - To me, though I’m the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ! 9 And to enlighten all as to what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all. 10 So that through the church, the diverse wisdom of God might be clearly made known to the principalities [arché] and powers in the heavenly realms, 11 according to his eternal purpose which he brought about in Christ Jesus our Lord. {All in Christ.} 12 In whom we have boldness and access - with confidence - through our faith in him. 13 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is for your glory. 14 And for this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family of heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened - with power through his Spirit in your inner being - 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have the strength to comprehend with all believers what is the breadth, length, height and depth of 19 the love {revealed} in Christ that surpasses all knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

      20 Now to he who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to his power at work in us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 4:1-10

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

JOHN 10 33-42

🍃🕊️ 03/26 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                 (paraphrased)

33 - They answered him, “It’s not for a good work that we’re going to stone you! But for blasphemy! For you, being a man, make yourself out to be God!” 34 Jesus then asked them, “Isn’t it written in your Law, ‘I said, ye are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God was given, and Scripture can’t be broken, 36 how do you say of he who the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I’m not doing the works of my Father, then don’t believe me. 38 But if I do them, even if you don’t believe me, believe the works, so you may know and understand the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their grasp.

     40 He went then, again, across River Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he stayed for a while. 41 And many came to him, and were saying to one another, “John did no sign, but everything John said about this man has been true.” 42 And many in that region were believing.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Luke 11:1-4

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 2 17 - 3 7

03/25 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

      Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians

                   (paraphrased)

17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. (1 Pet.3:19-20, 2Pet.2:5) 18 And through Jesus we both (Jew and Gentile) have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 For you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow citizens as believers and members of the household of God. 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus himself being the cornerstone [chief stone] 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in him. 22 And by the Spirit, being built together into a habitation for God.

     3:1 - For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles. 2 If indeed you have heard of the service of God's grace that was entrusted to me for you, 3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. 4 By which reading you can understand this mystery of Christ, 5 which for so long was not made known as it has now been revealed to his holy [hagios - set apart] apostles and prophets by the Spirit. 6 This mystery is that the Gentiles (the nations) are joint heirs, joint members of the same body, and joint sharers of the same promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel [euaggelion - good news]. {Through the good news gospel. Hearing it. Believing it. Resting and receiving in it.} 

     7 Of this gospel I was made a servant/minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given to me by the working of his power.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 3:8-21

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

JOHN 10 22-32

🍃🕊️ 03/25 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

                 (paraphrased)

22 - At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. [Feast of (re)Dedication - after pulling down the altar of burnt-offerings, which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanies - 1 Maccabees 4:59 - “Judas (Maccabee) and his brothers, with the whole congregation of Israel, ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their season, from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and gladness.”]

     It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple (complex), under the shelter of the colonnade [stoa - colonnade, portico, porch] of Solomon. 24 So the leaders gathered around him and questioned him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!” 25 Jesus answered, “I’ve told you, and you don’t believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify of me. 26 But you don’t believe because you’re not from among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them enduring life, and they will not perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” {He prayed believers would be one like he and his Father are one” Jn.17:11.}

     31 They then picked up stones again to stone him. 32 But Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father, for which one are you going to stone me?”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - John 10:33-42

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.

Ephesians 2 10-16

03/24 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

      Paul’s Letter To The Ephesians 2

                   (paraphrased)

10 - For we are his creativity and creation, intended, in Christ Jesus for good things! Which God predestined and prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

     11 So remember that at one time you gentiles were unbelievers 12 and were separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenant [diathéké - covenant, testament, will] of promise, having no hope [elpis - expectation] and without God in the world! 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.  {“The life is in the blood.”} 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us one and has broken down the wall of hostility that divides us 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. [Between Hebrew and Gentile (non Hebrew). “One flock.”]

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Ephesians 2:17-3:7

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My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.