(Matthew 13:41,49). They watch with sympathetic eyes the fortunes of men, rejoicing in the repentance of a sinner (Luke 15:10; compare1 Peter 1:12;Ephesians 3:10;1 Corinthians 4:9); and they will hear the Son of Man confessing or denying those who have confessed or denied Him ...
along with fellow creatures of all forms and sizes living in a shared world. Writing literally gave us complex thought (Luke 24:44-49,Romans 12:2,Ephesians 4:23-24), and complex thought allowed us to build a human world that's separate and in many ways independent from the natural world...
5. Maintain proper attitudes (Colossians 3:21; Ephesians 6:4; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; 1 Peter 5:3; Ephesians 4:29; Proverbs 29:22). We can see here a much broader aspect to parenting at work alongside the suggestion of physical discipline. The bigger picture highlights a more...
InEphesians 4:29, it says,“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”This verse encourages us to speak words that are edifying and full of life. In our conversations w...
Imitation is what allows large groups of individuals to gravitate upon a common center, from which in turn each individual identity comes to derive (Ephesians 3:15). The name Eve is identical to the noun חוה (hawwa), meaning tent village: the most primitive form of human settlement...
personal sacrifice should not be “a badge of pride.” The intent of a Lenten observance is to recognize our need for repentance and our depravity apart from God (1 John 1:9;Ephesians 2:1-5;Colossians 2:13), to draw closer to God, and to prepare our hearts for the celebration of ...
Most noticeable are the pointed allusions to Gnostic watchwords in Ephesians 3:19 ("fullness of God") and in Colossians 2:3 ("Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden"), where Paul shows that everything sought for in the doctrine of the Pleroma is really ...
The epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians [by] John Calvin ; translator, T. H. L. Parker ; editors, David W... Parker,HL T. - Eerdmans, 被引量: 14发表: 1965年 The Words Of Jesus: From Oral Traditions. To Written Record In Paul And...
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge;that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19)...