15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,17so that the servant of God may be thoroughly...
Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."New Living TranslationOf course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him, “You will be proved...
Lately, as I look back on this ordeal, I wonder if the time spent with God crying “You promised” would have been better spentnotcrying, but standing onand quotingthe scriptural promise that he is faithful. How much faster might the puppies have mended? Would there have been a second ro...
In this context, it suggests that those who abandon God's law end up endorsing or glorifying those who engage in evil deeds. This is a reflection of a moral inversion where good is called evil and evil good, a theme echoed throughout the Scriptures. Historically, this could be seen in ...
If of them I should ask, ‘How comes it that such opinions are held concerning the Holy One, whose ways you take upon you to set forth?’ I should be met by most with the answer, ‘Those are the things he tells us himself in his word; we have learned them from the Scriptures;’...
Jesus models this for us in Mark 14:36. With the crucifixion coming up ahead of Him, and the separation from His Father He was going to face on the cross, bearing the wrath of God upon Him for our sins, He prayed: “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Tak...
However, some time after at the judgement seat of Christ there will be rewards for good works and faithful service during life on earth or will lose rewards but not eternal life (1 Cor. 3:11-15; 2 Cor. 5:10). The scriptures do not say whether there is, or is not, a period of ...
But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you.You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ...
But neither should we despair, for God is faithful to finish what He started. A Prayer for Maturity Paul ends his prayer for the Philippians’ growth in spiritual maturity: “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you...
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye...