Month: October 2017

Can you be sure of your salvation?

The King James Bible consistently says ARE SAVED in the following verses:

Eph 2:8 KJB For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

1 Cor 1:18 KJB For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God

Modern bibles

NASB says ‘have been saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

AMP says ‘are saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

NIV says ‘have been saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

HCSB says ‘are saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

Legends and names referring to a special type of unicorn or mysterious beast with one horn, as opposed to the delicate imaginary unicorns of Europe based on narwhal horns, are scattered across the former range of Elasmotherium from China to Eastern Europe. They have been noted there since the first known literature of the Middle Ages.

However there were (and still are) real existing “Unicorns”!   They are actually of the same family as rhinoceros.

Elasmotherium (“Thin Plate Beast”) is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia. Three species are recognized. The best known, E. sibiricum was the size of a mammoth and is thought to have borne a large, thick horn on its forehead which was used for defense, attracting mates, driving away competitors, sweeping snow from the grass in winter and digging for water and plant roots. Like all rhinoceroses, elasmotheres were herbivorous. Unlike any others, its high-crowned molars were ever-growing. Its legs were longer than those of other rhinos and were designed for galloping, giving it a horse-like gait.

The KJB translators also knew this was referring to as can be seen in their marginal notes:

In Isaiah 34:7 in the 1611 edition the AV translators wrote two slashes || in front of the word UNICORN. Those slashes are known as a siglum, and the 1611 edition makes use of sigla throughout. In the adjacent margin – directly across from this siglum – the AV translators repeat that same siglum, i.e., they write the same two slashes ||, and then immediately after that they write – “or Rhinocerots“

Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Ps 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Prov 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Prov 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Mt 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Ps 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Ps 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Ex 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Col 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Jms 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Ps 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

Prov 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Prov 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Prov 18:3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Deut 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Prov 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

Ecc 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Prov 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

Prov 14:10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Prov 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Prov 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Prov 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Jms 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Prov 13:1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Prov 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Prov 24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Prov 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.   [less talk, more action]

Ps 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

Prov 10:22

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.