If you know anything of a foreign language, I recommend that you look at www.biblegateway.com where you can not only read the Bible in different English versions but several foreign versions too. Sometimes it can be really helpful to read in another language. Take 1 Corinthians 13 for a small but interesting example; one of the French versions translates verses 4 & 5 "4La charité est patiente, elle est pleine de bonté; la charité n'est point envieuse; la charité ne se vante point, elle ne s'enfle point d'orgueil,
5elle ne fait rien de malhonnête, elle ne cherche point son intérêt, elle ne s'irrite point, elle ne soupçonne point le mal,"
5elle ne fait rien de malhonnête, elle ne cherche point son intérêt, elle ne s'irrite point, elle ne soupçonne point le mal,"
I've highlighted the point because it doesn't just mean "not" but "not at all". Just a minor thing but it made me think about it. Wow! "Not at all." That's how I'm called to love, all those things that love isn't at all. Sometimes reading something you know well but in another language is a good way of bringing it to you in a fresh way. It's also the best reading practice you can get.
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