Random ESV Bible Verse Generator
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Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
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The ESV aims to be “essentially literal”: it stays as close as modern English allows to the wording and structure of the original Hebrew and Greek, which makes it a favorite for close reading, preaching, and verse-by-verse study.
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