The Word of God is "piercing" (diikneomai) meaning "to go through." The sword pierces through the heart. It pierces through the inmost recesses of our spiritual being. Nothing remains untouched by the Word of God. The Word of God "judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart." It...
"in the sense that these Hebrews possessed the Holy Spirit as an indwelling Person who had come to take up His permanent abode in their hearts. The word is a compound of the Greek verb "to have or hold", and a preposition meaning "with" thus "to hold with." It is used...
The writer reasons that God wouldn't have spoken of this rest in Psalm 95, if it had already been fulfilled. The "today" in Psalm 95:7 suggests that there is still a future promise of rest. Now comes a crucial passage for interpreting the meaning of "rest" in this passage: "8For i...
Hebrews 13:24 Meaning and Commentary Hebrews 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you The pastors and officers of the church of the Hebrews, the same with those in ( Hebrews 13:7 Hebrews 13:17 ) and all the saints; the several members of the church, who were set apart...
7 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king...
10 This verse begins with the Greek word meaning "for" and introduces the grounds for his... Heb 6:11 11 "We want" refers to strong desire. The writer was passionately concerned for his friends (see... Heb 6:12 12 The writer continues with the purpose behind h...
to lay hold of small portions of God's Word, and take them out of their connection as you might pluck feathers from a bird; it is an injury to the Word; and, sometimes, a passage of Scripture loses much of its beauty, its true teaching, and its real meaning, by being taken from ...
This could hardly be the full force of the Spirit’s meaning here, and the context seems to suggest more than that. I believe the scripture here is referring to a coordinated effort by demonic agents who work through men, often in crowds and through conspiracies, to achieve their destructive...
drawn by the lash,Hebrews 12:4. And he himself insinuates the meaning of the Hebrew reading in the following verses. It is the part of a prudent teacher, not openly to blame a version before a number, and yet to give a taste of the meaning of the originals to those who are ignorant...
"Be thankful/give thanks" (NIV, NRSV), "have grace" (KJV) is charis, which has the basic meaning of "grace, graciousness." Here it refers to a "response to generosity or beneficence, thanks, gratitude."43 Service. "Worship" (NIV, NRSV) or "serve" (KJV) is latreuō, "serve," ...