Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since… Continue reading 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Bible Study Guide: The Secret Of Endurance
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2 Corinthians 8:9 Bible Study Guide: Though He Was Rich, Yet for Our Sake He Became Poor
2 Corinthians 8:9 NIVFor you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. 9.For ye know the grace. Having made mention of love, he adduces Christ as an all perfect and singular pattern of it.… Continue reading 2 Corinthians 8:9 Bible Study Guide: Though He Was Rich, Yet for Our Sake He Became Poor
Romans 6:1-11 Study Guide: Dying To Live
Romans 6:1-11 What, then, shall we infer? Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we who have died to sin still live in it? Can you be unaware that all who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death? We have therefore been buried… Continue reading Romans 6:1-11 Study Guide: Dying To Live
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Study Guide: Bought With a Price
6:12-20 True, all things are allowed to me; but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed to me, but I will not allow any thing to get control of me. Foods were made for the stomach and the stomach was made for foods; but God will obliterate both it and them.… Continue reading 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Study Guide: Bought With a Price
A Woman with an Alabaster Jar vs. Judas Iscariot
Event: A supperDate: Six days before the PassoverPlace: At the house of Nazarus, Martha, and Mary in BethanyInvitee: Jesus and disciplesRecords found in Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, John 12:1-8 The writers of the three Gospel books focus on three people in this event: a woman, Judas Iscariot, and Jesus. When Jesus was at the table,… Continue reading A Woman with an Alabaster Jar vs. Judas Iscariot
Jesus Loved Them To The End: The Last Supper
The scene of the Last Supper is described by four writers of the Gospel. Matthew 26:17-29 Mark 14:12-25 Luke 22: 7-38 John 13 John 13:1 is the testimony of John who was at the path of the cross of the Lord Jesus. “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour… Continue reading Jesus Loved Them To The End: The Last Supper
Joseph the Dreamer
Genesis 37:1-11 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. Now Israel aka Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father… Continue reading Joseph the Dreamer
Who were Lois and Eunice in the Bible?
Answer: There is only one mention of Lois and Eunice in the Bible. They were the grandmother and the mother of Paul’s young protégé Timothy. In Paul’s second letter to Timothy, he mentions the faithfulness of these women in raising Timothy with such a devout and fervent faith. He writes, “I am reminded of your sincere faith,… Continue reading Who were Lois and Eunice in the Bible?
What happened on the road to Emmaus?
The events on the road to Emmaus are discussed in Luke 24. In this final chapter of Luke’s Gospel, we read of two disciples (Cleopas and one unnamed) of Jesus who were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus on the day that Jesus rose from the dead. As they traveled, a man joined them—the resurrected Jesus,… Continue reading What happened on the road to Emmaus?
Is it important to know Greek and Hebrew when studying the Bible?
Question: “Is it important to know Greek and Hebrew when studying the Bible?” Answer: Martin Luther, the great Protestant reformer, wrote the following in regard to the importance of understanding Greek and Hebrew when studying the Bible: “The languages are the sheath in which the sword of the Spirit is contained.” God sovereignly chose to have… Continue reading Is it important to know Greek and Hebrew when studying the Bible?