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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

TWISTED

JOB 28:28 (MSG)
Then he addressed the human race:
"Here it is!
Fear-of-the-Lord—that’s Wisdom,
and Insight means shunning evil.”

LUKE 11:35 (ABP)
Don't fool yourself into thinking that the darkness which characterizes your life is somehow light.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
Don't allow your perception of reality to become so twisted that you see your evil as good and darkness as light.

PRAYER
Thank you, God, for sending your light into the world through Jesus, whom we acknowledge as Savior and Lord. We confess, though, that we are still masters of self-deception. When it advances us we embrace as necessary and good some of the things which Jesus said are contrary to him and his kingdom. Forgive us and help us to repent of this kind of self-deception. We can't make such a turn on our own.  But we know that you can turn us around and moving back toward you. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

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TRANSLATIONS

ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon

CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)

CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

EXB = The Expanded Bible (©2011, Thomas Nelson Publishing)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)

NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)

NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)

NRSVue = New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (© 2021 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

REB = Revised English Bible (© 1989 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press)

TCEB = The Casual English Bible (© Stephen M. Miller)

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