Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so ...
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Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; and so ...
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Acts 17:31:
'For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.'
(NIV)
Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world righteously (justly) by a Man Whom He has destined and appointed for that task, and He has made this credible and given conviction and assurance and evidence to everyone by raising Him from the dead. [Ps. 9:8; 96:13; 98:9.](AMP)
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
(KJV)
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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Acts 17:19:
Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, 'May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?'
(NIV)
And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus [Mars Hill meeting place], saying, May we know what this novel (unheard of and unprecedented) teaching is which you are openly declaring?
(AMP)
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
(KJV)
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.
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1 Corinthians 7:1:
Now for the matters you wrote about: 'It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.'
(NIV)
NOW AS to the matters of which you wrote me. It is well [and by that I mean advantageous, expedient, profitable, and wholesome] for a man not to touch a woman [to cohabit with her] but to remain unmarried.
(AMP)
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
(KJV)
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Romans 15:17:
Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
(NIV)
In Christ Jesus, then, I have legitimate reason to glory (exult) in my work for God [in what through Christ Jesus I have accomplished concerning the things of God].
(AMP)
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
(KJV)
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Acts 2:32:
God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.
(NIV)
This Jesus God raised up, and of that all we [His disciples] are witnesses.
(AMP)
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
(KJV)
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