Synopses & Reviews
You're One-of-a-Kind
There's no one in the whole world just like you You don't need to wear a Halloween costume to be unique. You're special every day of the year
No one else looks exactly like you and talks like you and thinks like you. You're a one-of-a-kind creation.
Long before you were born God planned how you would look from the top of your head down to your toes.
Look at your hands. No one else has fingerprints exactly like yours. God is so wise that He designed a fresh set for each person. He never has to use the same pattern twice
God made you special because He loves you. He made you so that you could know Him and love Him back.
The Bible says that God cares about each bird in the sky. Don't you think that God is even more interested in you?
God knows everything about us. He knows the good things that we do and the bad things that we don't want anyone to know about. The Bible says that we all have done bad things (sins) and that we all deserve to be punished.
But you and I are so important to God that He sent His very own Son, Jesus Christ, to take our punishment. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
God loves you so much that He wants to forgive you. But first you must agree with Him that you have sinned.
Right now you can talk to God. Tell Him that you want Jesus to be your Savior. He is always ready to listen to you. He wants you to be part of His family and to help you every day.
Synopsis
An Excellent Companion to the ESV
The English Standard Version of the Bible, first published in 2001, is already widely acclaimed as an essentially literal translation that maintains the elegance of Bible translations in the King James tradition.
The Crossway Comprehensive Concordance now provides an excellent study companion for the ESV Bible. And as an essentially literal translation, the ESV is ideally suited for both devotional and scholarly study with a concordance.
Compact Yet Comprehensive
Just half the size of an exhaustive concordance, The Crossway Comprehensive Concordance can go with you wherever you study the Bible: Keep it at your desk for in-depth study. Bring it to the table for morning devotions. Or explore its pages with your friends in Sunday school or small group.
Although compact in size, this concordance is comprehensive in its listing of Bible words: For the nearly 14,000 words listed, every biblical occurrence is included-a total of more than 300,000 concordance entries. The carefully selected verse segment for each entry gives just the clue you'll need to identify the Bible passage you are looking for. For optimal compactness, 115 frequently used but less essential words (a, and, he, etc.) are excluded (see list, page xv).
To know God that much better . . .
Dr. William D. Mounce, noted Greek scholar, member of the ESV translation team, and compiler of this concordance, concludes his introduction with words that express the deepest hopes of the publishers as well:
I trust that this concordance will help you study the Bible more effectively, give you increased access to the English Standard Version, and at the end help you understand the mind and the will of God that much better.