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Most modern Bible translations, including the WEB, take this approach. The second option, taken by the creators of the KJV, is to argue that the Greek term usually translated as lifespan, helikia , can also sometimes mean stature, and this verse is thus speaking of adding physical height to the body.
The Bible [1] is a collection of religious texts or scriptures which to a certain degree are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The ...
The New International Version (NIV) is a translation of the Bible into contemporary English. Published by Biblica , the complete NIV was released on October 27, 1978 [ 6 ] with a minor revision in 1984 and a major revision in 2011.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: The New International Version translates the passage as:
Similar proverbs with a medical theme appear in other Jewish literature. [4] For example, "Physician, physician, heal thine own limp!" (Imperial Aramaic: אסיא אסי חיגרתך) can be found in Genesis Rabbah 23:4 (300–500 CE). [5] [6] Such proverbs also appear in literary Classical texts from at least the 6th century BCE.
The World English Bible translates the passage as: When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
book chapter:verse for a single verse (John 3:16); book chapter:verse 1 –verse 2 for a range of verses (John 3:16–17); book chapter:verse 1,verse 2 for multiple disjoint verses (John 6:14, 44). The range delimiter is an en-dash, and there are no spaces on either side of it. [3]
Several modern publications of the Bible have eliminated numbering of chapters and verses. Biblica published such a version of the NIV in 2007 and 2011. In 2014, Crossway published the ESV Reader's Bible and Bibliotheca published a modified ASV. [25] Projects such as Icthus [26] also exist which strip chapter and verse numbers from existing ...