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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 03:14 PM Sep 2015

Well, this should help TRUMP with evangelicals:

Donald Trump likes that Proverbs verse that might not exist

Nearly three weeks after Donald Trump was first asked to name his favorite Bible verse:

"Proverbs, the chapter 'never bend to envy,'" Trump said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The Brody File" on Tuesday evening in California. "I’ve had that thing all of my life where people are bending to envy." It was not clear whether Trump appreciated the passage because he had struggled with envy personally, or whether he was referring to envy he had experienced from others.

A search of several of the most-used standard versions of the Bible did not turn up any verse or chapter that urges people not to "bend to envy."

............

........there does not appear to be any verse in that book, or in other parts of the Bible, that urges readers to "never bend to envy."

CBN reporter David Brody, who conducted the interview, told The Washington Post that Trump aides said the candidate was referring to:

Proverbs 24:1-2: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief."





This raises the question of whether Trump's reference to the "people ... bending to envy" he'd experienced in his life was a self-reference, or what other interpretation of the verse there might be.


hahahahha - put that on your asshat:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/16/donald-trump-likes-that-proverbs-verse-that-might-not-exist/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/16/donald-trump-likes-that-proverbs-verse-that-might-not-exist/
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Well, this should help TRUMP with evangelicals: (Original Post) kpete Sep 2015 OP
You're assuming they know he just made that up. TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #1
unless his name is on the front cover he probably has never read it Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #2
I wonder if he'll hire a guru .lol SummerSnow Sep 2015 #3
proverbs 24 maybe? d_r Sep 2015 #4
Proverbs 2016 Faux pas Sep 2015 #5

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
1. You're assuming they know he just made that up.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 03:20 PM
Sep 2015

Some of these RWRNJs are the ones who say, "If the King James was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for me."

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