Proverbs 1: 8-19. (Section Entitled ‘The enticement of Sinners’)Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching,for they are a graceful garland for your headand pendants for your neck. My son, if sinners entice you,do not consent.If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;let us ambush the innocentContinue reading “Proverbs 1: 8-19”
Author Archives: Barry Hicks
Proverbs 1 : 1-7
(This is meant to be a daily quick look at a relatively short segment of the book of Proverbs. I have not looked up commentaries or reference books. I’m writing what it meant to me as an ordinary person, not theologically trained, but believing that the Bible is God inspired. Solomon lived a year orContinue reading “Proverbs 1 : 1-7”
As-i-read-it…..John 1: 1-13
John 1: 1-13 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light ofContinue reading “As-i-read-it…..John 1: 1-13”
As-I-read-it….. Luke 2: 36-40
Luke 2: 36-40 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fastingContinue reading “As-I-read-it….. Luke 2: 36-40”
As-I-read-it….Luke 2: 22-35
Luke 2: 22-35 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) and toContinue reading “As-I-read-it….Luke 2: 22-35”
As-I-read-it…..Luke 2:15-21
Luke 2:15-21 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.Continue reading “As-I-read-it…..Luke 2:15-21”
As-I read-it….Luke 2: 8-14
Luke 2: 8-14 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not,Continue reading “As-I read-it….Luke 2: 8-14”
As-I-read-it….Luke 2: 1-7
Luke 2: 1-7 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, toContinue reading “As-I-read-it….Luke 2: 1-7”
As-I-read-it…. Luke 1: 66-80
Luke 1: 66-80 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,for he has visited and redeemed his peopleand has raised up a horn of salvation for usin the house of his servant David,as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from ofContinue reading “As-I-read-it…. Luke 1: 66-80”
As-I-read-it…..Luke 1:39-66
Luke 1:39-66 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimedContinue reading “As-I-read-it…..Luke 1:39-66”
As I read it! 