“Cowardly”

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Most Bible versions correctly translate this word cowardly in Revelation 21:8. The King James Version’s choice of fearful is confusing. It refers not to people who feel afraid who but only to people who cave into fear. Consider:

    2 Corinthians 7:5  . . . we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside. (Emphasis mine.)

Godly courage is not the absence of fear, but pressing on regardless.

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