Sign up to get the Know the Bible free email lesson series from Bible Gateway. Lessons of Bitterness in the Bible Deuteronomy 32:32— Moses refers to bitter clusters of grapes in speaking of the moral corruption of the nations in Canaan. 2 Samuel 17:8—“Bitter of soul” is the descripti...
犹大之罪不泯 17“犹大的罪是用铁笔、用金钢钻记录的,铭刻在他们的心版上和坛角上。2他们的儿女记念他们高冈上、青翠树旁的坛和木偶。3我田野的山哪,我必因你在四境之内所犯的罪,把你的货物、财宝并丘坛当掠物交给仇敌。4并且你因自己的罪必失去我所赐给你的产业,我也必使你在你所不...
People began recruiting others to agree with their divisive way of thinking, seeking to justify their evil ways by winning others over on to their side. Backbiting as a result of bitterness, pride, offense, envy, anger and confusion became pervasive, at least within a small group. The ...
In the era covered by the four Gospels, Christ was on earth, and it was possible for His followers to walk with the Lord in a physical sense. There we read of the experience of a couple on the road to Emmaus, after Christ’s death and resurrection. “So it was, while they converse...
Then uniting us together as a nation with a common spirit, not a spirit of bitterness and division like we see today, but a spirit of love and equity and oneness like America once shared. The Bible teaches us that humans do not change, so we need to use our intelligence to turn ...
John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible comments the following on Romans 12:14. And curse not: to have a mouth full of cursing and bitterness, Romans 3:14, is the character of an unregenerate man, and what by no means suits one who names the name of Christ; for blessing and cur...
A point of departure is marked in the tenth chapter. Hitherto Job has more or less answered the men who have spoken to him; now he turns away from them, and says—I will speak straight up to heaven. He determines to be frank. "I will speak in the bitterness of my soul." That is...
endless rivers of tears. You’ve held tightly to the hope of healing. Only to have them dashed, time after time, when Jesus passed you by and didn’t heal you like He healed so many others, even others in your very same condition. How do you go on with life without the bitterness?
“lens” of Jesus’ earthly ministry, gives us the vision for God’s plan. The sweet/bitter of the scroll harkens back to Ezekiel, who was also ordered to consume a bitter message. The sweetness is the inevitability of God’s victory, the good news. The bitterness/sour is that this ...
“Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled …” (Hebrews 12:14-15) ...