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Daniel 4:35 CSB – All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, “What have you done?“ Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had immense…
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1 Corinthians 9:13-16 (WEL) Don’t you know that those who work around the sacred things live from the things of the temple? And that those who serve at the altar jointly share from the altar? 14 Even so, the Lord has made arrangements that those who are preaching the Good News should make their…
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1 Corinthians 9:11-12 (WEL) If we have sown in you spiritual things, is it any great thing if we reap from you material things? 12 If others partake of this right over you, shouldn’t we have a greater right? Nevertheless, we didn’t take this right; instead, we endure all things, lest we should hinder…
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Leviticus 26:3-4 (EHV) If you walk according to my regulations and keep my commandments and carry them out, 4 I will give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees in the farmland will yield their fruit. If Israel obeys God’s laws given through Moses, then…
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1 Corinthians 9:7-10 (WEL) Whoever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and doesn’t eat its fruit? Or who feeds the flock and doesn’t drink the flock’s milk? 8 Am I just talking like a man? Or doesn’t the law say the same thing also? 9 For it is written…
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Proverbs 25:26 (WEL) A righteous man wavering before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring. God wants us to be bold. We are not to waver, grow weak, yield to evil people, teaching, comments, lifestyles, etc., that contradict the Bible. We must stand for the truth of the Bible. When…
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Box Chapter Summary: Paul was certain that the strong brother had the freedom or right to eat the meat. He was just as certain that the knowledgeable brother must practice love and abstain from anything that would cause a weak brother to stumble. Christian liberty cannot provide a reason to act unloving. Paul used…
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1 Corinthians 8:7-13 (WEL) 7 Nevertheless, not everyone [has] that knowledge, and some, with a weak conscience regarding the idol, at this present time eat [food] as being something offered to an idol. Thus, their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food does not make us more acceptable to God. We are not…
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Chapter summary (Pett): “Paul now deals with a question central to the heart of every converted Gentile. In Corinth as in other Gentile cities idolatry entered into every part of life. It affected every aspect of life. The question then was how were Christians to approach the problem? “The main example dealt with in…
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1 Corinthians 7:32-40 (WEL) I want you to be without worry. He who is unmarried worries about the Lord’s things, how he can please the Lord. 33 But he who is married does worry about the world’s things, how he can please his wife. 34 There is a difference also concerning a wife and…