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Power for Abundant Living

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The God-breathed Wordwithout any exception from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation22:21.The words "all scripture" are followed by the word"is." "All scripture is ..." The word "is" must beitalicized. Where it is not italicized in a King JamesBible, it was either a proofreader's oversight or a deliberateact <strong>for</strong> the printer's convenience. Allitalicized words in the King James Version are wordswhich have been added to the text by the translators.One of the major reasons I have my students use theKing James Version is that this version points outwhat has been added to the Stephen's Greek textfrom which it was translated.Be<strong>for</strong>e going further, let us understand one thingIf a person deletes a word that is italicized, the Wordof God has not been touched. The italicized word wasadded anyway so that by dropping it The Word itselfis not touched. This becomes very important as we gofurther into the accuracy of The Word.To go another step, there was no verb "to be" inthe original Hebrew or Aramaic languages. There wasa verb "to become." In other words, the words "is,'"are," "was" and "were" literally were not in theoriginal Hebrew and Aramaic.This becomes very interesting in the first chapterof Genesis. Genesis 1:2 says "And the earth was ..."67

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