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1. “This too was emptiness,” he wrote. —Ecclesiastes 2:1, New English Bible.
2. For God has no favourites.” —Romans 2:9-11, The New English Bible.
3. Trust in the LORD and do good.” —Psalm 37:1-3, The New English Bible.
4. (Job 7:15, The New English Bible) What if such a condition persists, even for years?
5. (Acts 25:11) Appropriately, then, The New English Bible says that Stephen “called out” to Jesus.
6. (Acts 17:26, New English Bible) In what sense has God ‘fixed the epochs of man’s history’?
7. (Romans 12:3, New English Bible) He then adds: “In showing honor to one another take the lead.”
8. Everything people do, he concluded, is “emptiness and chasing the wind.” —Ecclesiastes 2:17, The New English Bible.
9. (The New English Bible) Yes, in many places a day’s wage barely buys just a loaf of bread.
10. Proverbs 14:9, “New English Bible”: “A fool is too arrogant to make amends; upright men know what reconciliation means.”
11. (The New English Bible) And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!
12. (1 Peter 1:13, The New English Bible) Self-control is needed to limit our leisure time to what is reasonable.
13. It acknowledges that a husband and wife will have “tribulation” or, as the New English Bible renders it, “pain and grief.”
14. (Hebrews 11:1) The New English Bible renders the verse this way: “Faith . . . makes us certain of realities we do not see.”
15. (The New English Bible) After the destruction of the wicked, the earth will be made into a paradise and populated forever by righteous humans.
16. Those who do so are described in the Bible as “the righteous . . . [who] grow tall as a cedar on Lebanon.” —Psalm 92:12, The New English Bible.
17. (Proverbs 19:3, The New English Bible) Yet, holding God responsible for man’s woes is like blaming a car manufacturer for the prevalence of drunk-driving accidents.
18. They would serve God “with one consent” (The New English Bible); “with one accord” (The New American Bible); or “with one unanimous consent and one united shoulder.”
19. (NW; The New English Bible) They are like the flocks of doves seen in Palestine at certain seasons —flying just like a cloud, so numerous that they actually darken the sky.
20. (1 Timothy 2:9, The New English Bible) Not surprisingly, in the book of Revelation, “bright, clean, fine linen” is said to represent the righteous acts of ones whom God considers holy.
21. 2 Fulfilling these prophetic words, the king of the north rejected “the God of his fathers” (or, “his ancestral gods,” The New English Bible), be it the pagan gods of Rome or the Trinitarian divinity of Christendom.
22. (Proverbs 12:3, The New English Bible) The unseen roots of a giant tree, such as the sequoia of California, may cover an area of several acres and can provide solid anchorage in the face of flood and high winds.
23. (Ephesians 4:23, 24) Then follow the apostle Peter’s admonition: “As obedient children, do not let your characters be shaped any longer by the desires you cherished in your days of ignorance.” —1 Peter 1:14, The New English Bible.
24. According to The New English Bible this verse reads: “If the homicide sets upon a man openly of malice aforethought or aims a missile at him of set purpose and he dies, . . . then the assailant must be put to death; he is a murderer.”