anything you value more than God has become your idol. The theme of Hosea is God’s loyal love for Israel, despite their spiritual adultery. It’s about sin, judgment and salvation based on God’s forgiving love. As hard as it must have been, Hosea obeyed God’s command. Vs 3 So he...
Verse Concepts Mark 9:23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” 21 Verse Concepts Mark 2:27 Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 22 Verse Concepts Mark 4:35 On that day, when...
119:124 In spite of what might seem like a plea for justice in verse 121, he here casts himself... 119:125 119:125 The more a servant knows about his master, the more useful and effective he can be. So... 119:126 119:126 This is an about-face. The...
to our God, who is generous in forgiving.8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts. 10 [cs]Yet just as from ...
Newton on I John 5:7Newton states that this verse appeared for the first time in the third edition of Erasmus's New Testament. When they got the Trinity; into his edition they threw by their manuscript, if they had one, as an almanac out of date. And can such shuffling dealings ...
gracious, and forgiving to all who repent and call on His Name. May 2022 be the year that billions of us cry out to Jesus with one voice, and witness Him turn the tide of destruction we have all been witnessing and suffering. It’s not too late, and nothing is impossible for God!
The sophisticated structure ofthe verse takes each two pairs of organs together,γλῶσσα(“tongue”,“language”)andὀφθαλμός(“eye”) on the one hand, andοὖς(“ear”) andκαρδία(“heart”)onthe other. Each pair thus contains one part directing inwards ...
Daniel received company in the gallery of examples in which Socrates occupied a prominent place. Depending on theme, place, and audience, past and present characters from different traditions and scriptures accompanied Daniel. They represented the development of aspects ofsatyagraha: nonviolent active res...
The name “Jesus” appears in the New Testament nearly a thousand times, beginning with the first verse of Matthew, and ending with the last verse of the book of Revelation. Can there be any doubt that He is the central theme, the One the writers want to present to us above all. ...
The repetition of the verb traditionally rendered “visit” in both clauses puts emphasis on the certainty—so “indeed.” Exodus 32:35 tn The verse is difficult because of the double reference to the making of the calf. The NJPS’s translation tries to reconcile the two by reading “for...