Searching a subset of Bibles in theWord

In this class, Searching a subset of Bibles in theWord, I will show you how to search for a word or phrase in a subset of Bibles.

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Brown The Devil's Mission of Amusement 7 page article from 1889. Hollywood in the church and her ministries. Brown was a student of C.H Spurgeon.
Excerpts:
Different days demand their own special testimony. The watchman who would be faithful to his Lord and to the city of his God needs to carefully note the signs of the times and to emphasize his witness accordingly. Concerning the testimony needed now, there can be little if any doubt. An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, that is so gross, so brazen in its impudence, that the most shortsighted of spiritual men can hardly fail to notice it.... Amusement for the people is the leading article advertised by each... until the hideous fact has been proved up to the hilt, that "amusement" is ousting "the preaching of the Gospel" as the great attraction... The Concert is fast becoming as much a recognized part of church life as the Prayer Meeting; and it is already, in most places, far better attended.

"Providing recreation for the people" will soon be looked upon as a necessary part of Christian work, and as binding upon the Church of God, as though it were a Divine command, unless some strong voices are raised which will make themselves heard.
Read the 7-page article: Brown, The Devil's Mission of Amusement.

Why would I want to search across Bibles?

Here I need to just use a good example. The word atonement has been rejected by many Bible translation committees. I won’t get into the why, but they have sought out other synonyms in their versions. It is good to see these side by side. So let’s do it without a Bible set.

Open theWord, and in the Bible search window, type in atonement, and click on the down arrow to the left of the search box, and you can search the default Bible, the current Bible, select a single Bible to search, or select a set of Bibles to search. I selected the KJV in this example.

Then click enter or the green arrow at the end of the search text field.

Verse set 1 at the bottom of this post has all the verses found. (Click in the Bible Search window, then Control + A (select all), then right-click in it, and then click on Add 70 verses to the Bible

As you can see from the above image, the BibleView window will now contain the list of verses. (Note if you are going to do this for a study, I would recommend shorting the search word to atone instead of atonement to catch more verses).

To save a verse list to a file

In the BibleView window, click on the icon below the B..A icon. This will bring up the above box to save just verse references or to save entire verses to a text file. (Actually, it will only copy it to the Windows clipboard, so you will need to open a Word Processor or Windows notepad and paste it into a file and save it.

Download this verse list – atonement-verse-list-kjv

Up to this point, we are just doing normal Bible Searches, but say we want to compare “atonement” in the KJV against the Amplified Bible and the NIV.

Now we can play with things a little using theWord’s great power.

But next, let’s do the search over two times, one for the Amplified Bible, and another for the NIV Bible.

The King James version has atonement 70 times, Amplified Bible has atonement 92 times, and the NIV has it 97 times.

So it would be nice to investigate why the differences.

So we go back to the dropdown triangle before the search term, and we click on “Select Bibles to search” and click on the Amplified Bible (AMP) and the New International Version (Niv2).

Download Atonement comparison – atonement-cp-kjv-niv-amp

Now we can see exactly where there are verses with very close concepts to atonement although not exactly used in the KJV.

Why would I want to search across Bibles?

To save a verse list to a file

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