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May 13, 2024 · Welcome to an inspiring journey of discovery where we bridge the seemingly secular with the deeply spiritual, all through the lens of The Velvet Underground’s iconic track, “Sweet Jane.”
Through the story of Jane in the Bible, we discover that her name signifies “God is gracious” or “gift from God.” This name carries a powerful message that reminds us of God’s overflowing love, mercy, and favor towards us.
Most Relevant Verses. Psalm 119:103. Verse Concepts. How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Proverbs 16:24. Verse Concepts. Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
- Proverbs 24:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes. My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
- Psalm 119:103 ESV / 40 helpful votes. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Genesis 8:21 ESV / 40 helpful votes. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
- Leviticus 1:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes. But its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
- Those Silly Women!
- Who Were Jannes and Jambres?
- Must We Use Other Sources When The Bible Contains All We Need?
- References & Notes
What is meant by verse six, when it says, “those who . . . captivate silly women?” One commentary states it is about those people who “creep or worm their way into households. It is not by accident that this description reminds us of the movement of a serpent. If they revealed their true identity, they would not succeed in getting into many of thes...
In verses 8 and 9, Paul reminds Timothy about the magicians in Egypt, Jannes and Jambres, who opposed Moses’ during meetings with the King of Egypt. This is the only place in the entire Bible that these men are named, though they would have been familiar to Paul and Timothy from various Jewish writings about Moses.13Below is scripture from Exodus, ...
To obtain this information about Jannes and Jambres, we had to travel down a rabbit hole (once again) searching for scattered details about whom they were. Do we really need outside information to learn about the Bible? Will doing so compromise our clarity and lessen the quality of our Bible study? To answer these questions, let me quote from autho...
Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome, Paul: A Critical Life, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. 356.Unless otherwise stated, all scripture is from New Revised Standard Version Bible, Division of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1989. Used with permission.Henry, Matthew, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), vol. 6, pp. 678-679.Mays, James Luther, (Ed.), Harper’s Bible Commentary, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 1242.What does the Bible say about sweetness? Here are 22 Bible verses about sweetness from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
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I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
