1. Consider this verse from the Bible: "This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
What do you think "lips" represents here?
2. Consider these verses from the Bible:
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to
the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a
sword. For I have come to set a man against his
father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
What do you think the sword represents here?
3. Consider these words from the Bible:
"Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!
Our inheritance has been turned over to
strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
Our pursuers are at our necks;
we are weary; we are given no rest.
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,
to get bread enough."
What do you think "the hand" represents here?
4. In #3 what do you think bread
represents?
5. Consider these words from the Bible:
"The exulting of the wicked is short.
Because he knew no contentment in his belly,
he will not let anything in which he delights
escape him."
What do you think the belly represents here?
6. Consider these words that Jesus prayed
before he was crucified:
"Father, if you are willing, remove this cup
from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours,
be done."
What do you think cup represents here?
7. Consider these words:
"And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom
do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will
be your judges. But if it is by the finger of
God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of
God has come upon you."
What do you think finger represents here?
8. Consider these words from the Bible:
"A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."
What do you think bones represents here?
9. Consider these verses:
"Who has believed what they heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at
him,
and no beauty that we should desire him."
In the second sentence, what do you think the
arm represents?
10. Consider these words from the Bible:
"And the farmer said, ´I will do this: I will
tear down my barns and build larger ones, and
there I will store all my grain and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample
goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink,
be merry.´"
What do you think the words "my soul" represent
here?
Demographic information:
Overall, would you say you answered the preceding questions based more on (a) or (b):
a. previous knowledge you had about meanings of these words in the Bible, or
b. as a fluent speaker of English, meanings of the questioned words is common knowledge?
Opinion: Overall, how would your characterize
the wordings of this English Bible version?
a. They sound like good literary English to me.
b. They do not sound like English which most unchurched people would undersand.
c. I speak and write like this all the time.
d. Other (please explain in a short phrase)
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