Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
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Luke 1:1:
Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us
(NIV)
SINCE [as is well known] many have undertaken to put in order and draw up a [thorough] narrative of the surely established deeds which have been accomplished and fulfilled in and among us
(AMP)
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
(KJV)
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage; the wife is in charge.
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Romans 3:25:
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood – to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished –
(NIV)
Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.
(AMP)
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(KJV)
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge
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We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
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Philippians 1:23:
I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far
(NIV)
But I am hard pressed between the two. My yearning desire is to depart (to be free of this world, to set forth) and be with Christ, for that is far, far better
(AMP)
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
(KJV)
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Galatians 3:1:
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
(NIV)
O YOU poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom--right before your very eyes--Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified?
(AMP)
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
(KJV)
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1 Peter 2:9:
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
(NIV)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. [Exod. 19:5, 6.](AMP)
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
(KJV)
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Matthew 13:31:
He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.'
(NIV)
Another story by way of comparison He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.
(AMP)
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
(KJV)
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Hebrews 1:1:
In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways
(NIV)
IN MANY separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets
(AMP)
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
(KJV)
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Matthew 13:24:
Jesus told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.'
(NIV)
Another parable He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
(AMP)
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
(KJV)
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? it is not to save time, but to squander it.
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Acts 17:20:
'You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.'
(NIV)
For you set forth some startling things, foreign and strange to our ears; we wish to know therefore just what these things mean--
(AMP)
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
(KJV)
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