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...
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 ...
They watch with sympathetic eyes the fortunes of men, rejoicing in the repentance of a sinner (Luke 15:10; compare 1 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 before men (Luke 12:...
heroes but about inclusive people movements, not about the occasional superman and his adoring entourage but about the richness of human collectives, cultures and schools of thought — or in modern terms: boards, councils, think tanks, fraternities, teams, companies and so on (Ephesians 6:12)....
and this appears to have agreed most with human nature (compare Genesis 12:3 andEphesians 3:15to Psalm 2:1-3 andRevelation 22:2). The trouble in political Paradise seems to have started when somebody got the idea of overruling humanity's natural authority structures and concoct a synthetic ...
See Ephesians 2:8-9 on what is necessary for salvation. (excerpt by Hope Bolinger, What is a Profession of Faith?) 'Walk by Faith, Not by Sight' Bible Meaning In (2 Corinthians 5:7), Paul explains to the Corinthians that even though this temporary realm we live in may seem like...
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)...
he will never escape competition. He will never experience God, or even the fact that all things can be understood by their relativity to all other things (because the whole of reality is a single unified network of relationships from which everything derives its identity:Ephesians 3:15,Romans...
(Matthew 26:26-29,1 Corinthians 11:25). Though thousands of miles separate us, we are spiritually united (Ephesians 4:4). When I participate in sharing the Lord’s Supper (Communion) with my local church family, I join other believers from all over the earth in proclaiming His death ...