Philippians 4:13 is a bible verse that has been used as motivation for athletes, students, musicians, and many others. It is sometimes written on shoes, cleats, jerseys, banners, and anywhere that can be easily seen. But the verse is used by Paul here in a deeper way than a lot of ...
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”Legacy Standard Bible Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the ...
Zechariah may have not had that problem at all, maybe no problem in how he spoke, though no one is without sin in that regard. He may have been exemplary in that way, but can any of us doubt that for the at least nine months he was silent, that when he was able to again speak...
I’d like to explain this word before I shock you with a passage from the Bible that uses this word in two seemingly different senses. Many, if not most translations, will not even translate the words the same, even though the two occurrences ofthumosare only separated by one verse. Many...
Berean Standard BibleThen Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”Berean Literal BibleAnd Jesus said to him, "No one having laid the hand upon the plow, and looking on the things behind, is fit for the kingdom ...
Sin? Salvation? Judgement? Tim and Jon first discuss the importance of the, oftentimes overlooked, Old Testament, which is essential in understanding the overall narrative of the Bible. They then discuss the centrality of the texts (the Bible) to second temple Jews, Jesus, and the early ...
You can imagine what a comfort this verse is to those families who had their own taken captive by Hamas and hidden in the Gaza tunnels. You may have seen many online hostage posters with three words ‘bring them home.’ This also applies to all of us caught in the darkness of sin and...
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself ...
First, we know that Jesus is not talking about His flesh in the part of the verse where He says “the flesh profits nothing.” Consider this question: is the flesh of Jesus of no profit? What about His Incarnation? How could He speak of His own flesh as profiting nothing, when He ju...
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stoneat her.”8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. ...