In This Book You Will Find -

1. The most important questions.

These are the questions for which you must have the answers

if you want to know yourself, your God, and a life of glory.

2. The answers to your questions.

These are not the answers of learned men but the answers

God gives us.

The "Daily Readings" are a selection of the richest doctrinal

statements on each lesson. If you have any time to spare in

class, use it for a Bible study of these readings.

3. Accurate Bible quotations.

Many years of hard study of the manuscripts and of the Bible

text are behind these quotations from Beck's translation of the

Bible.

Dr. Beck asked the question: What does God want in a Bible

translation? The first answer, which every Christian knows, is

that God wants us to have an accurate Bible. It should be more

accurate than the translations of today. From such a fresh

translation, absolutely loyal to the manuscripts and the original

text, come the passages in this book. You can trust them.

On each topic we can gather a mass of Bible quotations not

all of which are equally clear and direct in answering our questions.

Many hundreds of Bible statements were examined most

thoroughly to select those that will help you most effectively.

4. God is speaking your language.

There's a second answer to the question: What does God want

in a Bible translation? God wants to talk to our hearts. Dr. Beck

has put his life into the job of giving us such a Bible. How well

he has succeeded you can tell from a test consisting of 67 passages

submitted to 60 Detroit pastors. Without knowing which

translation they were voting for, they gave his translation a vote

of 3,858 over against 162 for the RSV. It was the conviction of

these pastors that the passages as you have them in this book

are in the language of our hearts. They are in the crisp language

of today and tomorrow because our Lord wants to talk that way.

5. This book will catch your interest.

Here you are yourself searching for the truth and from point

to point discovering it.

6. Here you stand on your own feet.

When you try to get a truth from a difficult wording ex

plained by commentaries and pastors, you lean too much on

others to have an independent conviction. But when God speaks

clearly in your own language, what you believe isn't something

some man or church tells you but what you yourself get from

God's Word. By letting God talk directly to your heart, you will

be more thoroughly convinced. You will get the kind of sparkling

faith with which you can meet any prob lem in our puzzling

world.

7. You can teach these truths -

To a friend you'd like to win for Christ;

To get any child or adult ready for communicant membership

in the church;

In the family devotions;

In Sunday school, Bible class, vacation Bible school, released

time or Saturday classes.

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Jesus says, "See, I'm standing at the door and knocking. If you will

listen to My voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat

with you, and you with Me." (Rev. 3:20)