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[9] In 1 Corinthians 9:24–26, [10] written to the city that hosted the Isthmian Games, [11] the metaphor is extended from running to other games, such as boxing, [12] to make the point that winning a prize requires discipline, self-control, and coordinated activity. [13] In 2 Timothy 2:5 [14] the same point is made. [15]
Estienne produced a 1555 Vulgate that is the first Bible to include the verse numbers integrated into the text. Before this work, they were printed in the margins. [19] The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579).
The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. 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 ...
A common format for biblical citations is Book chapter:verses, using a colon to delimit chapter from verse, as in: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). Or, stated more formally, [2] [3] [4] [a] Book chapter for a chapter (John 3); Book chapter 1 –chapter 2 for a range of chapters (John 1–3);
The numbers and the Greek word appear immediately above the English translation instead of side by side, as is common in many interlinears. The Apostolic Bible Polyglot also contains The Lexical Concordance of the ABP, [ 2 ] The English Greek Index of the ABP, [ 3 ] and The Analytical Lexicon of the ABP. [ 4 ]
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The Book of Genesis in a c. 1300 Hebrew Bible The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah. The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood.
John 20:31 is the thirty-first (and the last) verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the statement of purpose for the whole gospel. It contains the statement of purpose for the whole gospel.