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An excellent resource for Bible Study is the website 
http://www.biblegateway.com/

 This website offers a daily reading plan, topical index to assist you in finding passages that relate to various topics that you might be searching for in the Word, and even a passage "look up" feature that assists you in finding that passage that you may only remember a few words of that you would like to explore again.  One of the features of this website that I find helpful is the ability to look up a passage in one translation and then convert it instantly to another.  For example:  I look up the passage in the NIV translation and then want to see how this appears in the Message or Contemporary English Version.  I simply move from one to the other in a quick pull-down menu.  If you are looking for an online resource for Bible translations, this will keep you from needing to spread out 2 or 3 different Bibles in front of you at one time.


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