Not everyone in the family line of Israel really belongs to Israel. 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 ...
16It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.17For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[g]18Therefore God has mercy on...
The Jewish people would put this scripture along with Deuteronomy 11:13-21 on a scroll and roll it into a small case set on the doorpost.Read more about the Mezuzah here. While this is a Jewish tradition, it has absolute validity in Christianity. The Old Testament scriptures are the roots...
The implications are enormous.If kids can now be criminalized for taking pictures, pedophiles and child pornographers have an easy out.By having the child push the button, the pedophile makes the child an accomplice in the crime.Now such creeps can rightly tell children “You could go to jail...
This scripture is part of Paul's parting speech to the elders of the church in Ephesus. Paul said that he preached the truth, not to boast, but to teach them. The church at Ephesus was established by Paul himself, and he lived there for three years. The believers in the church at Ep...
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:14-17) For more on the Scriptures, the Bible, see: ...
Let Pioneers Identify Truth.– “When the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand forever as the truth. No aftersuppositions, contrary to the light God has given are to be entertained. Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, ...
Treasury of Scripture And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. speak thou Deuteronomy 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear aga...
Treasury of Scripture For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily. I cried. Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I canno...
Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the Truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. + -Scripture verses asked to be read by Jesus. ...