–Ephesians 5:22-6:4 provides instructions for husbands and wives, children and parents, emphasizing mutual submission, sacrificial love, and the passing on of godly values to future generations. –Colossians 3:18-21 highlights the importance of mutual respect, forgiveness, and grace within family ...
When he noted the details of his beloved son's celestial dream, he took great care to scrutinize the Word of the Lord as it came in this dream. After all, he was only following his Grandfather's instructions, to keep the way of the Lord, for their Patriarchal Administration. The ...
Now all these signs of spiritual gifts are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty, and they agree, too, with the rules, and the dispensations, and the instructions of the Creator; therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the apostle, belong severally to my God. ...
I. Scriptural Statement of the Subject.— The instructions given by the N.T. in reference to baptism and the Lord's supper are of two kinds: 1. Those found in the example and precepts of Christ himself; ⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.2. Those found in the ...
addressed to Paul by the Corinthians, and strictures upon the disorders which prevailed in their worship; and the fourth (15-16) contains an elaborate defense of the Christian doctrine of the resurrection, followed in the close of the epistle by some general instructions, intimations, and ...
in accordance with your instructions, I had forbidden political associations. Accordingly, I judged it all the more necessary to find out what the truth was by torturing two female slaves who were called deaconesses. But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. I therefore ...
Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan 50 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 t...
Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel. 34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings...
The promise had been given in the hearing of his distinguished guests, and so Herod, though loath to be made the instrument of so bloody a work, gave instructions to an officer of his guard, who went and executed John in the prison, and his head was brought to feast the eyes of the...