V. The Mission of Paul to the Ends of the Earth - Paul and Barnabas Separate. After some time, Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us make a return
All the real apostles are documented in scripture. There is no support for Paul’s claim other than his own word in the epistles that he wrote. Of the 22 times he is called an apostle, only two come from someone other than himself. That ‘someone’ was Luke, Paul’s friend, traveling...
The opening words above were what I was greeted with as I sat down with them again on this Tuesday morning. Our conversation over the next hour and a half ranged from football to politics and from parenting to couples therapy, with a good bit of Scripture mixed in, but the first words ...
7 Not everyone in Abraham’s family line is really his child. Not at all! Scripture says, “Your family line will continue through Isaac.” (Genesis 21:12) 8 In other words, God’s children are not just in the family line of Abraham. Instead, they are the children God promised to ...
“Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer. Treasury of Scripture But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither. Jump to PreviousCaesarea Caesare'a Cesarea Custody Depart Festus Held However Indeed Intended Kept ...
had repeated the verse of the great Hymn to Zeus, “For we are also His offspring!” It was the first day of his bondage, the first day of many years when he wore the chains upon his wrists, the chains that clank and rattle through all the epistles of his bondage: “Paul the priso...
InEphesians 4, “head” and “body” signifies unity, and Paul says that we are to become like the head. God’s goal is for us to become mature adults—to be fully grown, measured by the standard of the fullness of Christ…. let’s grow in every way into Christ, who is thehead....
The Corinthians' arrogance towards Paul has been based on the premise that somehow they (and their "super-apostles"�) are superior to Paul. Not so, says Paul. You have serious sin in your midst that you haven't dealt with."I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of...
On the basis of Onesimus's usefulness to Paul's(verse 11).Onesimus was useful to Paul and served him while in prison, probably by attending to his personal needs, perhaps shopping, carrying messages, etc. I need him, Paul says, "while I am in chains for the gospel" (verse 13b). Don...
25 As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." 26 "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ' You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God.(...