Reference: Hard
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Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and will hardly leave him, bruising him.
Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
We sailed along it with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
Share in hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
By these he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and become partakers of the divine nature.