Running the Race with Discipline - Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the ...
1做神和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各,请散住十二个支派之人的安! 2我的弟兄们,你们落在百般试炼中,都要以为大喜乐,3因为知道,你们的信心经过试验就生忍耐。4但忍耐也当成功,使你们成全、完备,毫无缺欠。 要凭着信心求 5你们中间若有缺少智慧的,应当求那厚赐于众人也不斥责人的神,主就必赐给他。6只...
Colossians 1:10-11“So that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience.” Exam...
5For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. ...
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our ...
(verse 11) the ruler, but they will turn on the “woman” for reasons that I don’t really know. It appears that even among “team evil,” there is division. The ultimate point John is making is that Rome has become a prostitute of all kinds of things that are evil in God’s ...
The tree of life could have given him immortality, however, and God determined that “man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:22). To prevent Adam from achieving full parity with God, the first man had to be driven out of the garden where the tree of life...
The theme of the Book of James is spiritual maturity – how to grow up in Christ. The key verse isJames 1:4b“ …so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”Not everyone who grows old, grows up! There is a difference between age and maturity. The Book of Hebrews, whi...
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the...