The Book of Joshua should be called 'Seven Years of Genocide.' Luckily, the abominable events described within probably did not ever happen. The Book of Joshua was actually a much quicker read. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.more

May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love 18-19 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so a Ephesians 3:17-19ġ7 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. I feel blessed to live in a time when I have many translations of the Bible (and even a paraphrase) to read.Įphesians 3:17-19 Living Bible (TLB) 17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. There is a place for reading the modern vernacular of course, there is also place for cadences of sixteenth century English in the KJV. I love words and these are words of life. The footnotes are sparse, often beginning 'Literally.'. I missed the kind of references that would, for example, tell you where a quote is from. The two-column format lends itself to reading. When I decided to read this beat-up book in 2018, I was curious to read the printed page and my own notations with older eyes. I read some (but not all) of it, marked it up, and eventually switched to a NASB which became my primary Bible for decades. I love words and the My dad gave me this in March, 1972.

The living bible paraphrased 1971