God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, throughįaith in his blood. This was to show God's righteousness, because in hisĭivine forbearance he had passed over former sins. Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, toīe received by faith. Righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation throughįaith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins thatĪre past, through the forbearance of God I see no legitimate connection between theĬoncept communicated by the Hebrew text and the text of The Message. The meaning of the Hebrew text conveyed by the NASB, ESV, NIV, and 'friends' who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closerįriends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.įollows the Septuagint (Greek OT) rather than the Hebrew text. Is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

To ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Ĭompanions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than aĪ man of many companions may come to ruin, but there Must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a

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