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Galatians 1:3-5 (WEL) May grace and peace be yours from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father, 5 To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. V3…
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Sin was the charge; guilty was the verdict, and death was the sentence. One sin is that serious. God’s standard is the Law, summarized in the 10 Commandments. Breaking God’s law either actively or by failure to obey brings God’s wrath. All have broken God’s laws (the sinless Lamb of God, 100% God and…
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Sinlessness is without sin in thoughts, desires, words, and deeds. Only God Himself. Hebrew: (H369) אַיִן ’ayin meaning (Word Study Dictionary): A particle or semiverb of negation or nonexistence meaning no, none, nothing and (H5766) עָוֶל ‛āwel meaning (Word Study Dictionary): A masculine singular noun meaning injustice, unrighteousness. Thus, without sin. Greek: (G5565) χωρίς chōrís meaning separate from and (G266) ἁμαρτία hamartía meaning sin. Thus,…
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2 Corinthians 5:16-19 (WEL) So then, we acknowledge no one according to the flesh. Yes, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we don’t know Him this way anymore. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are gone. Look! All has…
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2 Corinthians 5:1-5 (WEL) For we know that if our earthly house, our tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 In this house, we are groaning, deeply longing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven. 3 So if…
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (WEL) For this is the reason we don’t give up even though our body [literally outward man] perishes, yet the inward is renewed day after day. 17 Our lightweight troubles, which are short-lived, bring us exceedingly greater and eternal weight of glory. 18 For we are not looking at the things…
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2 Corinthians 4:3-6 (WEL) If our Good News is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost. 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, lest the light of the glorious Good News about Christ—who is the image of God—should shine on them. 5 For we do…
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2 Corinthians 4:1-2 (WEL) We don’t become discouraged from having this ministry, since we received it through mercy. 2 We have rejected the hidden things of dishonesty, not living in deceptive practices, nor deceitfully corrupting the Word of God, but by openly showing the truth, presenting ourselves to everyone’s conscience in God’s sight. Summary…
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2 Corinthians 3:12-16 (WEL) Seeing that we have such hope, we speak very bluntly. 13 Not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so the children of Israel wouldn’t stare at that which was going to fade away. 14 Their minds were closed, for even to this day that same veil remains…
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2 Corinthians 3:7-11 (WEL) So if what ministers death—letters engraved on stones—was so glorious that the children of Israel could not take a long look at Moses’ face, because of the glory of his face (a glory which was going to end), 8 How much more glorious is the ministry of the Spirit? 9…