I wasn’t keen on the ‘true’-type language or the way it characterised anything the dominant wanted as ‘service’ which seemed to ignore ‘play because hot and awesome’. I don’t think that’s what the author intended, but it’s still the impression I got from it and that didn’...
If you know danger is coming to others, and you deliberately fail to warn the others of the danger, you are guilty of harming the victims. This is not to say that you can make people heed your warning. The surrounding verses also say that if the people refuse to heed the warning of ...
which I won’t go into right now. But even if “against you” wasn’t original, this passage still helps to answer the question of how we respond when someone sins against us. For one thing, if you look down a few verses to Matthew 18:21, Peter asks Jesus...
Promises 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall ...
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If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.Galatians 5:14The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”Romans 13:9-10The commandments “Do not commit adultery,”“Do not murder,”“...
It should be right up there with these other, “no-nonsense” rules, but some people still don’t “get it.” Never hit your dog. Never leave your dog unattended in a hot car. Don’t forget about those other 10 Commandments, written by somebody else, millenia ago. Most of those ...
Unchanging Commandments (verse 32): God commands that nothing be added or taken away from His instructions, emphasizing the importance of preserving His word unchanged. In essence, these verses emphasize obedience to God’s laws, the rejection of pagan practices, and the importance of maintaining ...
The Bible declares that we are new creations. But just as we are considered forensically or legally righteous in Jesus since believers are covered by his blood, we still have to grow into what we are in practice. Today, waiting in my physical therapist’s office for my time slot, I shunn...
(1) From the protest against the casuistry which tampered with and distorted the great primary commandments, the Sermon on the Mount passes to the defects of character and action which vitiated the religion of Pharisaism even where it was at its best. Its excellence had been that it laid st...