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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, this should help TRUMP with evangelicals:
Donald Trump likes that Proverbs verse that might not existNearly 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. "Ive 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."
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........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
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TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)1. You're assuming they know he just made that up.
Some of these RWRNJs are the ones who say, "If the King James was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for me."
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. unless his name is on the front cover he probably has never read it
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)3. I wonder if he'll hire a guru .lol
d_r
(6,907 posts)4. proverbs 24 maybe?
maybe that's the thing that people have bending to him all their life?
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)5. Proverbs 2016
He who doth not know his bible is not allowed to preach.