(Acts 7:38 NLT) ... Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.

(Colossians 3:16 NLT) Let the (Word) message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. ...

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• Formal equivalency - KJV, NKJV, NASB, and ESV

• Functional equivalency - NLT, Good News, TEV, and NIV

• Paraphrase - Living Bible, and The Message

(1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

(1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

(1 Corinthians 13:4 MSG) Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head.

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Spirit Filled Life Bible

Life Application Bible

Written over 1600 Years, A dozen countries, Three Contents, Penned by about 40 people, Three languages

Written by by poets, prophets, farmers, kings, soldiers, shepherds, princes, priests, historians, fisherman, tax collectors, scholars, businessmen, doctors.

Written in caves, ships, palaces, prisons, deserts

(2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Law Books - 5 Books - Genesis thru Deuteronomy
History Books - 12 Books - Joshua thru Esther
Poetry Books - 5 Books - Job thru Song of Solomon

400 years of silence

The Gospels - 4 Books - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
The Book of Acts
The Epistles - 21Books - Romans thru Jude
The Revelation

The Plot

A Mirror Image

New Testament is a MIRROR IMAGE of the Old Testament

Object of the Bible is us.

Bible written and given to us!

Subject of the Bible is Jesus.

You can find Jesus all the way through.

(John 5:39 NLT) "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

The Verb of the Bible is Give.

(John 3:16 NLT) "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

(1 John 3:16 NLT) We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.