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Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”? “Are you […]
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 […]
Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. 3 I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My […]
Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles who had run the race to the end. He was also the master of the run-on sentence as these 4 verses of the 7 verse opening sentence of Romans prove. Into this short section though, Paul managed to cram the whole of Scripture. In it we see that […]
17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. I saw a British murder mystery in which the murder was committed to acquire an orchid. One flower. George Carlin joked that we buy flowers for our wives that immediately die. This explains the words […]
10 And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel. What have you done for me lately? Anyone who has heard that question directed at them knows how irritating, selfish, and short-sighted […]
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. The Protestant Work […]
For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me. 40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. 41 They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried […]
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all […]
Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.” 4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. In Genesis 1, God made the sun […]