standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: "Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb." … ...
6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 7But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sa...
19.God is asking you to step out in faith about something.Please seek wise counsel on this to ensure you don’t make unnecessary or unbiblical decisions in your zeal. For example, God could be encouraging you to quit your job, but NOT in your timing. Too often we forget to apply wisd...
is life, and whom to know and embrace is eternal life and therefore, saith he, "these are they which testify of me." Man lived immediately in God when he was in innocency, he had life in himself from God, but then he began to live in himself without dependence on God the fountain ...
8And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dungit:9And if it bear fruit,well:and if not,thenafter that thou shalt cut it10, down. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.11And, behold, there was1a ...
appeal to creation, not to the custom of Corinthian harlots. We must be careful not to let our zeal for knowledge of the culture obscure what is actually said. To subordinate Paul’s stated reason to our speculatively conceived reason is to slander the apostle and turn exegesis into eisegesis...
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