2 Peter 2:1 (MEV): But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Even denying the Lord who bought them. Why make such a statement about false …
Fulfill Her Week
Genesis 29:21–24 (MEV): Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may have relations with her.” Laban gathered together all the men of the place and prepared a feast. But in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob had …
Your Song is More Beautiful
Job 35:10–11 (MEV): But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’Have you considered that God has taught you more than He has any other beast on Earth? Seriously consider how …
What Your Behavior Accomplishes
Job 35:6–7 (MEV): If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what does it do to Him? If you are righteous, what does it give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? Elihu asks Job a series of probing questions. These questions drive at something rather …
You Have Something Job Longed to Have
Job 31:35–37 (MEV): Oh, that one would hear me. Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that the One who contends against me had written a book! Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and bind it on me like a crown. I would declare to Him the number of …
Is 2 Thessalonians 2 a Rapture Text?
2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 (MEV): Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and concerning our gathering together unto Him, we ask you not to let your mind be quickly shaken or be troubled, neither in spirit nor by word, nor by letter coming as though from us, as if the day of Christ …
Being Ready for Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:10 (MEV): Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. In my reading, it occurred to me that what we consider to be the epitome of preparation for spiritual warfare as being Paul's description of the armor we must wear. These are his final thoughts on the …
It’s Nailed to the Cross
Colossians 2:13–15 (MEV): And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has resurrected together with Him, having forgiven you all sins. He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us, and He took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. …
For to God we are a Sweet Fragrance of Christ
2 Corinthians 2:14–17 (MEV): Now thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ and through us reveals the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God a sweet fragrance of Christ among those who are saved and among those who perish. To the one we are the …
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The Two-Fold Atonement
1 Corinthians 15:17 (MEV): If Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.Paul makes a surprising claim. If Jesus Christ is not risen and alive, us Christians are still in our sins. Wait, what about that hymn, "What can wash away my sins?" We sing in answer, "Nothing but …
