Can you find these 15 verses in your Bible?
Let me challenge you to pick up your Bible, find the following verses, and read them. You may be surprised at what you see. Or do not see.
- Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
(Matthew 17:21)
- For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
(Matthew 18:11)
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
(Matthew 23:14)
- Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
(Mark 7:7)
- Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
(Mark 9:44)
- Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
(Mark 9:46)
- And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
(Mark 15:28)
- Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(Luke 17:36)
- (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
(Luke 23:17)
- For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
(John 5:4)
- And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
(Acts 8:37)
- Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
(Acts 15:34)
- But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
(Acts 24:7)
- And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
(Acts 28:29)
- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
(Romans 16:24)
Surprised? Confused? Maybe even shocked? Now do you think that it makes a difference what Bible you use?
There is a reason why we use the King James Version of the Bible in our church and why I use it in my teaching and preaching. Quite simply, the King James Version of the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, Word of God preserved for us in the English language.
While settle for a dull butter knife when you can have a sharp, two-edged sword?
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