While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

How far the fellowship in most local churches falls below what the New Testament means by koinonia!!

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.

The apostle Paul said the same thing in the language and faith of the New Testament: `` He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things??

The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

The publication of The Quest of the Historical Jesus, effectively put a stop for decades to work on the Historical Jesus as a sub-discipline of New Testament studies.

Schweitzer established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including The Psychiatric Study of Jesus ( 1911 ); and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters, and the more complete The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle ( 1930 ).

This examined the eschatological beliefs of Paul and ( through this ) the message of the New Testament.

No other New Testament account includes this event.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

A tune named " Arlington " accompanied Newton's verses as much as " New Britain " for a time in the late 19th century.

Barnes ' Notes on the New Testament comments on these verses saying: " These comprehend the substance of what Moses in the law, and what the prophets have spoken.

Some scholars assert that critical verses in the New Testament have been used to incite prejudice and violence against Jewish people.

Professor Lillian C. Freudmann, author of Antisemitism in the New Testament ( University Press of America, 1994 ) has published a study of such verses and the effects that they have had in the Christian community throughout history.

There are some verses in the New Testament that describe Jews in a positive way, attributing to them salvation or divine love.

It was in this edition that the division of the New Testament into verses was for the first time introduced.

When the New Testament was written, the Old Testament was not divided into chapters and verses, and hence the authors had to provide contextual references:

Early in the novel, she participates in a festival for Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, and when she performs a baptism she chooses a passage from Genesis, the book of creation, over more traditional New Testament verses.

He also appears every Saturday night on the network's flagship show, Campaña Por TV ( Campaigning Through TV ), where he preaches selected verses of the New Testament, presents Christian music groups, and invites viewers to convert to Christianity.

The national anthem, " God Defend New Zealand " is often sung with alternating Māori and English verses.

New jack swing was a style and trend of vocal music, often featuring rapped verses and drum machines.

:( 3 ) " Another practice which should be surrendered is that of referring to Old Testament verses quoted in the New as original New Testament passages.

It was in this edition that the division of the New Testament into verses was for the first time introduced.

In 2006, she was an onstage guest on Mariah Carey's The Adventures of Mimi Tour in Atlanta, New York City, Long Island, Washington DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles performing her rap verses on the " Heartbreaker " and " Honey " remixes.

" The crosses contain verses from the New Testament.

The new verses are critical of U. S. involvement in the end of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin's embrace of western-style capitalism, making particular disparaging references to the New world order following the end of the Cold War.

When Dylan Thomas was staying at New Quay, Ceredigion in West Wales one winter, he went out early one morning into the still sleeping town and verses came to his mind about the inhabitants.

In 1819, together with his friend and fellow poet Fitz-Greene Halleck, he wrote a series of satirical verses for the New York Evening Post, which were published under the penname " The Croakers.

Or verses 4 & 5 in the New International Version:

: Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty ; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation ; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations ; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age ; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur ' án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems ; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest ; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation ; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples ; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán ; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary ; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad ; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn ; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as " Return ," " Resurrection ," " Seal of the Prophets " and " Day of Judgment "; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation ; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the " City of God ," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.

Certain verses of the Qu ' ran were interpreted to create a specially tolerated status for People of the Book, Jewish and Christian believers in the Old and New Testaments considered to have been a basis for Islamic religion:

Boogie Down Productions ( 1986 – 1988 ), Kool Moe Dee vs. LL Cool J ( 1987 – 1991 ), MC Serch vs. MC Hammer ( 1989 – 1994 ), Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg vs. Luke ( 1992 – 1993 ), Common vs. Ice Cube ( 1994 – 1996 ), MC Pervis & Brand New Habits and LL Cool J vs. Canibus ( 1997 – 1998 )-all of which include memorable battle rap verses.