make an appeal or petition. In the context of a high priest, Jesus' intercession is a comforting assurance of His ongoing advocacy. Historically, priests interceded for the people before God, and Jesus fulfills this role perfectly, ensuring that believers are continually represented before the ...
In addition to personally bearing their sins, he "will justify many" (Isaiah 53:11b) and "made intercession for the transgressors" (Isaiah 53:12c). He continually intercedes for us (Hebrews 7:25; Romans 8:34). And, as we saw in Lesson 3, he is our Advocate before the Father (1 ...
alerts us that time is getting closer. When Paul wrote this he was expecting for it to happen in his lifetime, however, because it didn’t happen then, it makes the likelihood greater every day.
soon ceases to ask that question: he has the witness in himself, or, better still, as some read it, he has the witness in Christ. He knows that he is Christ's disciple, for he so continually follows his Master. He not only
Schleiermacher himself did not overlook the probable objection that the church, induced merely by the relative excellence of Jesus, conceived an ideal of absolute perfection, and transferred this to the historical Christ, from which combination she continually strengthens and vivifies her consciousness ...
When you were first converted, your heart seemed to be wrapt up in love to Christ, and delight in him and his praises. You were then continually meditating on Christ and the things of Christ, and your meditations on him were sweet. And you were then much in speaking of those things, ...
forever. Because he is with us continually and goes before us, we can walk confidently without fear through this life, through whatever door we find ourselves standing in front of. He has prepared the place we are entering for us, He goes ahead and is there when we enter, and at the ...
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, sin...
1 [bd]Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come,[be] and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year. 2 Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered,...
All these with one mind and one purpose were continually devoting themselves to prayer, [waiting together] along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.Christian Standard BibleThey all were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the ...