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  2. Counting the cost - Wikipedia

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    The unfinished chapels of Batalha Monastery; construction was abandoned in 1533 and the vaulted ceiling was never concluded. Counting the Cost[a] is a passage in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 14:25–33) [1] which includes a pair of parables told by Jesus. The first title comes from the phrase "count the cost", which occurs in the King James Version ...

  3. Luke 14 - Wikipedia

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    The first title comes from the phrase "count the cost", which occurs in the King James Version of the passage, as well as some other versions. Eric Franklin argues that the requirement to "hate" in verse 26 is " Semitic exaggeration",; [ 22 ] the Jerusalem Bible calls is a "Hebraism" whose call is "not for hate, but for total detachment, [ 23 ...

  4. Matthew 5:27–28 - Wikipedia

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    Matthew 5:27–28. Wall decoration with the text "Thou shall not commit adultery". Golden, Colorado. Matthew 5:27 and Matthew 5:28 are the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth verses of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. These verses begin the second antithesis: while since ...

  5. Protestant Bible - Wikipedia

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    The widespread popularity of the Bible translated into High German by Luther helped establish modern Standard High German. [1] A Protestant Bible is a Christian Bible whose translation or revision was produced by Protestant Christians. Typically translated into a vernacular language, such Bibles comprise 39 books of the Old Testament (according ...

  6. Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia

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    The book is valued and revered for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities [ 1 ] and its historical significance. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Latin Vulgate printed in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, in present-day Germany. Forty-nine copies (or substantial portions of copies) have survived.

  7. 144,000 - Wikipedia

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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that the sealing of the 144,000 relates to the high priests, ordained unto the holy order of God, to administer the everlasting gospel; "for they are they who are ordained out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom is given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as will come to the church of ...

  8. King James Version - Wikipedia

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    The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [d][e] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books of the ...

  9. List of books of the King James Version - Wikipedia

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    There are 80 books in the King James Bible; 39 in the Old Testament, 14 in the apocrypha, and 27 in the New Testament.. When citing the Latin Vulgate, chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for example "John 3:16".