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For years, Vine’s Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship has shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000...

pastoral concerns are to be cast on Jesus. A use of merimna that is not an example for us occurs in the parable of the sower. In explaining the parable, Jesus says, “As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful” (Mt 13:22, ESV). Lost humanity is preoccupied with this life and with the deceitfulness of wealth, both of which keep the Word of God from taking root in our hearts