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This comprehensive, up-to-date reference tool provides a helpful and reliable guide for reading and studying the Bible. Nearly 5,000 entries identify every person and place named in the Bible, examine the contents and background of each biblical book and related writings, describe the physical and cultural aspects of the world of the Bible, and explain and interpret important focuses of biblical...

Phil. 2:15 with John 8:12; 1:4–5). “The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him” (1 John 3:1b). James also sees a stark choice to be made: “friendship with the world is enmity with God” (Jas. 4:4). Paul, characteristically, uses the most striking imagery to describe this dichotomy: by “the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ … the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14; Rom. 6:6–11). If the devil has so turned the world against God, this state of affairs
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