Blog 2023-05-04
ELTB references [∞] I used KJV quotes in the first children's book. I am tempted to do my own translation/paraphrase. Every translation is a paraphrase of sorts. Let me know what you think.
1. De 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb [parable], and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
1. BP De 28:37 Everywhere God leads you, you will be desolate. Your lives will be a parable [of Christ], and people will taunt you.
2. Ge 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
2. BP Ge 22:18 Because you obeyed me, I will bless all nations [by the parable of Israel and] by Christ.
3. Pr 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
3. BP Pr 25:2 God's glory is his riddling speech; kings gain honor by discovering his sayings.
4. Ps 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
4 BP Ps 78:2 [When I come as Messiah] I will teach with parables that are riddles.
5. Ge 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
5. BP Ge 2:17 Don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or you will die that day.
2. Ro 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2. BP Ro 12:2 Don't act like everyone else. Think different and act different. Prove God's good, acceptable, and perfect will [by your life].
1. Mt 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
1. BP 1. Mt 7:1 God will judge you [for playing God], if you judge others.
2. Ro 5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
2. BP [Adam sinned and his spirit died. As a result, his children were born with living bodies and dead spirits.] Your life [spirit] will abound in love and the gift of righteousness even more so through Jesus Christ.
3. Mt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
3. BP Mt 5:44 I have a different teaching. Love your enemies. Bless them if they curse you. Do good to those who hate you. Pray for those who abuse and bully you.
2. Ro 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
2. BP Ro 7:9 I thought I was fine before I heard the law. Then I heard the law and realized that by all my sin, I had a dead spirit.
1. Pr 11:22 [As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
1. BP Pr 11:22 A pretty girl who does not discern [what she learns] is like a pig with a gold ring in it's nose.
2. Mt 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
2. BP Mt 7:6 Don't give holy things to dogs [those who return to their old sins]. Don't give pearls [precious things] to pigs [those who don't know they are precious]. They will destroy them and you.
