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2. King James Only movement - Wikipedia

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   The exclusive use of the King James Version is recorded in a statement made by the Tennessee Association of Baptists in 1817, stating "We believe that any person, either in a public or private capacity who would adhere to, or propagate any alteration of the New Testament contrary to that already translated by order of King James the 1st, that is now in common in use, ought not to be encouraged ...

3. Matthew 5:34 - Wikipedia

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   Tolstoy also understood this verse as banning all oaths, and it led him to support the abolition of all courts as a result. [3] The reference to Heaven as the Throne of God comes from Isaiah 66:1. Hill notes that while heaven in Matthew is often used as a periphrasis for God's name it is quite clearly not so used in this verse. [4]

4. John 20:29 - Wikipedia

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   One interpretation of this verse is Thomas's confession in John 20:28 has a significant weakness that it depends on sight, so Jesus needs to ' repetition of the words Thomas said a few days before and the make an immediate correction by stating the 'greater blessedness of those who believe without seeing'. [2]

5. King James Version - Wikipedia

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   John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...

6. God helps those who help themselves - Wikipedia

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   A similar version of this saying "God himself helps those who dare," better translated as "divinity helps those who dare" (audentes deus ipse iuvat), comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, 10.586. The phrase is spoken by Hippomenes when contemplating whether to enter a foot race against Atalanta for her hand in marriage. If Hippomenes were to lose ...

7. Matthew 5:35–36 - Wikipedia

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   Many scholars believe that in the previous verses Jesus tells his followers that swearing upon heaven or the earth is the same as swearing upon God because heaven and earth are the throne and footstool of God. In this verse Jesus makes clear that even swearing by one's own head is the equivalent of swearing by God because one's head is also ...