The Fall - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must …

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Covenant. a contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means "to cut," and hence a covenant is a "cutting," with reference to the cutting or dividing of animals into two parts, and the contracting parties passing between them, in making a covenant ( Genesis 15; Jeremiah 34:18 …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

CHAPTER 15. The Vine and the Branches. 1 * “I am the true vine, * and my Father is the vine grower. a 2 He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes * so that it bears more fruit. 3 You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. b 4 Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own …

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If you love me, keep my commandments. John 14:21-24 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him…

CHAPTER 16. The Demand for a Sign. 1 * a The Pharisees and Sadducees came and, to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 * He said to them in reply, “[In the evening you say, ‘Tomorrow will be fair, for the sky is red’; 3 b and, in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to judge the appearance of the sky, but you …

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