POETRY IN THE SCRIPTURES- part 4

In the New Testament, or New Covenant, we find more poetic beauty. Jesus taught with synthetic parallelism in Matthew 5, where the second thought adds to the first thought.

Matthew 5:3-4 KJV

Blessed are the poor in spirit:

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn:

for they shall be comforted.

The apostle John surely wrote with poetic beauty. This beauty may not be evident in other versions of the scriptures.

John 1:1-5 KJV

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him;

and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life;

and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness;

and the darkness comprehended it not.

Peter spoke with poetic boldness.

Acts 3:6 KJV Then Peter said,

Silver and gold have I none;

but such as I have give I thee:

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth

rise up and walk.

The saints pray in poetic unity.

Acts 4:24-31 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said,

Lord, thou art God,

which hast made heaven, and earth,

and the sea, and all that in them is:

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said,

Why did the heathen rage,

and the people imagine vain things?

The kings of the earth stood up,

and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord,

and against his Christ.

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus,

whom thou hast anointed,

both Herod, and Pontius Pilate,

with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

For to do whatsoever thy hand

and thy counsel determined before to be done.

And now, Lord,

behold their threatenings:

and grant unto thy servants,

that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

By stretching forth thine hand to heal;

and that signs and wonders may be done

by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Paul wrote with poetic clarity.

1 Corinthians 13:11-13 KJV

When I was a child,

I spake as a child,

I understood as a child,

I thought as a child:

but when I became a man,

I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly;

but then face to face:

now I know in part;

but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;

but the greatest of these is charity.

Seven times in the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, Jesus repeats the poetic phrase;

“He that hath an ear,

let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Overcomers will sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb.

Revelation 15:2-4 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

Great and marvellous are thy works,

Lord God Almighty;

just and true are thy ways,

thou King of saints.

Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,

and glorify thy name?

for thou only art holy:

for all nations shall come and worship before thee;

for thy judgments are made manifest.

See also; Poetry in the scriptures

God bless you all.