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1. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
Then they get in all their shopping sprees. At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep,
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Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword
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Now we see everything that’s going wrong, with the world and those who lead it
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I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday.
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She takes you in with your crying eyes, then all at once you have to say goodbye
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You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes, it brought me back to life
7. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
I’m tired of all this—so tired. My bed has been floating … on the flood of my tears.
8. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
Take all your wasted honor, every little past frustration, take all of your so called problems, better put them in quotations.
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She says the bible is all that she reads and prefers that I not use profanity
10. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
And I will walk outside on my own into the light, the kind of clarity that only comes to me on Sunday’s shine, Sunday’s shine
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I’ve thrown myself headlong into your arms— I’m celebrating your rescue.
12. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
He comes up empty. A string of zeros.
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Someday I’ll fly, someday I’ll soar
14. Is this passage John Mayer or the Message Bible?
Nightly he strolls in our garden, delighting in the flowers, until dawn breathes its light and night slips away
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You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it, I’ll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it
we love the SCL website-too funny and too accurate!!! We got our notificationt hat we are officiall on our agency’s waiting list to get our little one-woohoo! but STILL have yet to find the Ethiopia coke can-now my 2 oldest daughters are popping box handles and and spinning cans to look for them too-I have dragged us all down
But I WILL be victorious!!!! 
So, this is what passes for ‘bible translation’ these days.
It should be noted that The Message translation is a paraphrase of the original languages of the Bible, not a direct translation.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_%28Bible%29
A lot of people find it helpful when applying Scripture to their own lives. It reveals a fresh take on passages that we’ve heard and read for years. And usually that “fresh” take is actually an ancient take.
Well this is great.. John Mayor and the Bible.. Doesn’t get better