Using the STEP Bible for a word study

On Sunday here at CBC we started a new teaching series looking at some of the 'I urge you...' phrases that we find in the New Testament letters. On Sunday I mentioned that not all English translations of the Bible translate this phrase 'I urge you...' on every occasion - sometimes they use 'I appeal to you ...' for example. So if we wanted to locate every verse where this phrase appeared in the original language - how would we do that?

A few weeks ago our speaker talked about their work with the STEP Bible - a free online resource that would allow us to find the answer to our question above.

Start by visiting the STEP Bible webpage here. It will open up in Genesis 1.

Whilst we use the NIV translation at church, the ESV in the STEP Bible allows us access to many more features so let's have a look at the first verse in our new series Romans 12:1-2 in the ESV and the NIV. Hovering over words in the ESV will give us important information about words in the original language.

We will then have a look at the Greek phrase that is translated 'I urge you'.

We will then search for this Greek phrase in the New Testament - and then limit our search to just the Epistles.

This short video will show you the different steps involved in this process.