For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun? Ecclesiastes 2:22 NABRE A man searches to gain wisdom, but the search for wisdom serves no purpose, for the wise man’s lot remains unchanged, no matter what he learns.…
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You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD, To turn back the hearts of parents toward their children, and to re-establish the tribes of Israel. Sirach 48:10 NABRE Certain Christians associate this book with the Hebrew…
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The LORD begot me, the beginning of his works, the forerunner of his deeds of long ago; Proverbs 8:22 NABRE This verse opens a section in Proverbs on Wisdom who is of divine origin. She exists before all things, when God planned and created the universe, adorning it with beauty…
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All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be John 1:3 NABRE John opens His gospel in similar poetry as the words beginning the Hebrew Scriptures. John wants us to know Jesus the Christ preexisted and is the incarnate Word that…
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He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, Colossians 1:13 NABRE Paul (who includes Timothy in exhorting the listener in this letter) tells the community how grateful he is for the Colossian Christians. He wants to have them focus on…
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