John Klein wrote: > @> faith and pierced themselves with many pains." > > For some reason, I keep imagining nose rings here. A lust for money for vanity's sake could certainly be manifested by nose rings :) Think bull-ring style. :) > Actually, the King James version is more fun, as usual: Mileage varies, but I do note the added benefit of the phrase 'foolish and hurtful lusts' which gives it good points for this particular exercise. As literature, the KJV is beautiful. As a translation of Scripture it is somewhat flawed. Or rather, it was state of the art 400 years ago in England before the advent of good biblical scholarship and recent archeological finds. It just doesn't do much for this particular modern Christian. Casey