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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. [1] The World English Bible translates the passage as: You hypocrite! First, remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. [citation needed]
The English-Chinese Bible: New Revised Standard Version and Chinese Union Version with simplified Chinese characters (printed by Amity Printing Company and published by China Christian Council) Because of the old-style and ad hoc punctuation, the CUV looks archaic and somewhat strange to the modern reader.
One other interpretation reads this verse in light of the ones immediately preceding it (7:1–5) where instruction is given to not judge a brother and to remove the log from one's own eye before removing the speck from the eye of another. In this interpretation, the "holy things" and the "pearls" are the "brother" who might be cast amongst the ...
The only approved Chinese Catholic Bible version is Studium Biblicum. The Bible did not play a primary role in Church preaching in sixteenth-century Europe or in the first Jesuit missions to China; translating scripture was not a major concern. The Jesuit missionaries in Beijing were granted permission in 1615 to conduct mass in the vernacular ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: The World English Bible translates the passage as: “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ...
The Today's Chinese Version (TCV) (Traditional Chinese: 現代中文譯本; Pinyin: Xiàndài Zhōngwén Yìběn) is a recent translation of the Bible into modern Chinese by the United Bible Societies. The New Testament was first published in 1975, and the entire Bible was published in 1979.
In the Book of Jonah 1:7, the desperate sailors cast lots to see whose god was responsible for creating the storm: "Then the sailors said to each other, 'Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.' They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah." Other places in the Hebrew Bible relevant to divination include:
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. The World English Bible translates the passage as: If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it