Bible Copilot

What a Bible verse means in its context. Study plans, background and common misreadings, twice a day. KJV and WEB text. By the Bible Copilot app.

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1 Corinthians 9:25 went to a city with its own games. Corinth held the Isthmian Games every two years. Winners got pine or celery.

We asked Bible Copilot. It pictured the Olympics and a laurel wreath, Delphi's prize. Red box on the card.

What keeps you going when it's hard?

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@rccgopenheavens Malachi starts the refining with the priests: "he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness" (Malachi 3:3, KJV). The ones who led worship went into the fire first.

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@cselston The verb in "Create in me" is bara, the same one in Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created" (KJV). In the Hebrew Bible it never takes a human subject. David asks for a clean heart that only God can make.

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@Mamabear8727 Verse 10 sets the timing: "after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you" (Jeremiah 29:10, KJV). The letter went to exiles in Babylon (v4), so the hope in verse 11 came with a long wait. Bible Copilot's answer on it is on the card, one miss boxed in red.

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@CalledTFreedom Verse 105 opens the nun stanza of this acrostic. In Hebrew, verses 105 to 112 all begin with that letter, and the first word here is ner, "lamp." A lamp for the feet shows the next step. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (KJV).

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@KojoWood Verse 4 comes right before the healing. Three verses later Jesus sends the blind man to Siloam, "which is by interpretation, Sent" (John 9:7, KJV). The One sent by the Father sends him to the pool called Sent. We ran verse 7 through Bible Copilot; its answer is on the card.

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Sources: Tacitus, Annals 14.27 (earthquake; Laodicea rebuilt from its own resources, without Roman aid). Wikipedia, Laodicea on the Lycus (trade wealth, black wool, the Nero-era quake). The answer's related verses include Matthew 7:21-23 and 2 Corinthians 13:5.

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In AD 60 an earthquake leveled Laodicea. Tacitus says it rebuilt "by its own resources," without Rome.

Then Revelation 3:17: "I am rich... and have need of nothing" (KJV).

Bible Copilot's verse 15 answer flagged that self-sufficiency.

Where do you lean on your own resources?

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Verses 15 and 16 in the WEB: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth." (Revelation 3:15-16)

Verse 18 gives the cure: gold refined by fire.

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@IceLeader5 Webster's 1828 lines up well with the Greek. Same meat market, same instruction: "Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake" (1 Corinthians 10:25, KJV). Thanks for adding it.

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@Davidrios @YouVersion The Greek word behind "correctly handles" is orthotomeo, literally "to cut straight." The KJV has "rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15). The Greek Old Testament uses the same picture for God making paths straight (Proverbs 3:6).

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@BroPresby The verb behind "manner of life" is politeuomai, "live as a citizen." That landed in Philippi, "a colony" (Acts 16:12, KJV) settled by Roman army veterans proud of their status. Paul picks the thread back up in 3:20: "our citizenship is in heaven" (WEB).

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@ccmcleod Verse 3 uses the language of handing down a fixed tradition: "I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received" (1 Corinthians 15:3, KJV). Many scholars date this summary to within a few years of the cross. Paul had spent fifteen days with Peter (Galatians 1:18).

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@crossway The KJV keeps both rains in view: "as the latter and former rain unto the earth" (Hosea 6:3, KJV). In Israel the former rain starts about now, late October into November, and softens the ground for planting. The latter rain comes in March and April to fill out the grain.

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Sources: Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.48.2 (pine at the Isthmus); Plutarch, Life of Timoleon 26 (celery crown). Both summarized on Wikipedia's Isthmian Games page. Sources differ on which plant came first. The answer's related verses (2 Tim 2:5, Heb 12:1-2, James 1:12) fit.

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1 Corinthians 9:25 went to a city with its own games. Corinth held the Isthmian Games every two years. Winners got pine or celery.

We asked Bible Copilot. It pictured the Olympics and a laurel wreath, Delphi's prize. Red box on the card.

What keeps you going when it's hard?

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Check it in the WEB: "Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible." (1 Corinthians 9:25)

Paul's point holds in the answer. The miss is the setting: olive at Olympia, laurel at Delphi, pine or celery at Corinth.

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@jmagoo746 Verse 14 keeps the promise going: "And I will be found of you, saith the LORD" (Jeremiah 29:14, KJV). Thanks for reading along.

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@ColonelFree Amen. David closes that prayer with a place to stay: "I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings." (Psalm 61:4, KJV)

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@MrWillieJackson Romans 12 is a strong pairing with that. Paul grounds the call in what God already did: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God" (Romans 12:1, KJV). Mercy first, then the renewed mind. God bless you too.