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What does the Bible actually say?
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"Do not do unto others" — the Bible's Golden Rule is positive, not negative
The Bible's Golden Rule is positive ("do to others"), not negative ("do not do"). The negative form is Rabbi…
blessed are the peacemakers
Greek eirēnopoios is active — people who MAKE peace happen, not people who happen to be peaceful. Matthew 5:9…
Charis — the Greek word behind 'grace' and what it actually covers
The Greek charis covers four meanings — saving grace, ordinary favour, a gift, and plain thankfulness. Paul…
Pulp Fiction — "Ezekiel 25:17"
Almost the whole speech is invented. The real Ezekiel 25:17 is one sentence about divine vengeance against…
1 Corinthians — Bible Book Guide
Letter to a troubled, cosmopolitan Greek church around 54 CE. Includes the resurrection chapter (15) and the…
What does the Bible say about the end times?
The phrase 'end times' is not a fixed biblical expression; the word 'rapture' is not in any English Bible.…
Checked against the text
All checked entries →Every entry on the site is checked against the biblical text and labelled. Click any pill to browse by category.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer burial service, not verbatim in the Bible. The underlying biblical texts (Genesis…
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Not in the Bible. The Gandhi attribution is also disputed — the pithy form appears to be a 1990s-2000s condensation of…
Ask and you shall receive
The exact wording is in John 16:24 (KJV). Matthew 7:7 reads 'ask and it will be given to you.' Each passage qualifies…
Be still, and know that I am God
Psalm 46:10 verbatim. The Hebrew harpu is plural and can mean 'desist, cease' — and the surrounding verses describe the…
All things work together for good
Romans 8:28. KJV: 'all things work together'. BSB: 'God works all things together'. Greek manuscripts disagree on…
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Bible by the numbers
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The Word Behind the Word
All words →Single biblical words that carry enormous cultural weight — examined in their original Hebrew or Greek.
The Greek noun translated 'love' in 1 Corinthians 13 and 'charity' in the KJV. The most common NT word for love, used roughly 116 times. Often distinguished in popular usage from three other Greek words — phileō, storgē, erōs — though the lines between them are less rigid in actual NT usage than the popular taxonomy suggests.
The standard Hebrew greeting and one of the most semantically rich words in the Hebrew Bible. Almost always translated 'peace' in English, but the underlying Hebrew covers a wider range — wholeness, completeness, soundness, welfare, prosperity, friendship.
English translations frequently render four distinct biblical words with the single English word 'hell.' These are not synonyms. The Hebrew Sheol, the Greek Hades (used to translate Sheol in the Septuagint), the Greek Gehenna (the name of a specific physical valley outside Jerusalem), and the Greek Tartarus (used once, in 2 Peter 2:4) are different words for different things in their original contexts.