AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. Scripture quotations marked (TEV) are taken from the Today's English Version - Second Edition. Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.

ARTHUR JAMES LTD. Scripture quotations marked (Bar) are taken from The New Testament, A New Translation by William Barclay. Copyright © William Barclay, 1968, 1969. Current (1988) edition copyright © Ronnie Barclay; rights Arthur James Ltd. Used by Permission.

BECK, WILLIAM F. Scripture quotations marked (Beck) are taken from The New Testament in the Language of Today by William F. Beck. Copyright © 1976, Mrs. William F. Beck. Used by permission.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Extracts marked (Bas) are taken from The Bible in Basic English, reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.

DOUBLEDAY. Scripture quotations marked (Jerus) are taken from The Jerusalem Bible. Copyright © 1966 by Darton, Longman, and Todd, Ltd., and Doubleday, A Division of Bantam, Doubleday, Bell Publishing Group.

HARPER COLLINS, INC. and HODDER AND STOUGHTON, LTD. Scripture quotations marked (Mof) are taken from A New Translation of the Bible by James Moffatt. Copyright © 1954 by James Moffatt.

HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, INC. Scripture quotations marked (MLB) are taken from the Modern Language Bible, The New Berkeley Version in Modern English, Revised Edition. Copyright © 1945, 1959, 1969 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., and are used by permission.

JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT PUBLICATIONS. Scripture quotations marked (JNT) are taken from the Jewish New Testament by David H. Stern. Copyright © by David H. Stern.

KREGEL PUBLICATIONS. Scripture quotations marked (Rhm) are taken from The Emphasized Bible: A New Translation by J. B. Rotherham.

THE LOCKMAN FOUNDATION. Scripture quotations marked (NAS) are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE ® Copyright © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. Used by permission.

MATHIS PUBLISHERS INC. Quotations marked (ABPS), (Lam) and (Har) are taken from The Word: The Bible from 26 Translations, Curtis Vaughn, Th.D., General Editor. Used by permission. The (ABPS) quotations were originally from The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testament: An Improved Edition (American Baptist Publication Society). The (Lam) quotations were originally from The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts by George Lamsa. The (Har) quotations were originally from The Psalms for Today: A New Translation From the Hebrew into Current English by R. K. Harrison.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. Scripture quotations marked (RSV) are taken from The Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1946, 1952 & 1971, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Extracts marked (NEB) are from The New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press1961,1970.

SHEED & WARD, INC. and BURNS AND OATES, LTD. Scripture quotations marked (Knox) are taken from The Holy Bible: A Translation From the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals by Monsignor Ronald Knox. Copyright © 1954 by Sheed & Ward, Inc., New York, with the kind permission of His Eminence, The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and Burns and Oates, Ltd. Reprinted with the permission of Sheed & Ward, 115 E. Armour Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64111.

THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS. Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980,1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS. Scripture quotations marked (TLB) are taken from The Living Bible: Paraphrased by Kenneth Taylor. Copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. Scripture quotations marked (AAT) are taken from The Bible: An American Translation by J. M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed. Copyright © 1935 by the University of Chicago.

ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE. Scripture quotations marked (Amp) are taken from The Amplified Bible. The Old Testament copyright © 1965 by The Zondervan Corporation. The Amplified New Testament, copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978,1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.