🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
• 2 Corinthians 11:1-9 John 3:1-12
☀️ 2 Corinthians 11:1-9
1 - I hope you will bear with me (Paul) in a little foolishness! 2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you! For I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. {🗝️to Rev.14:4; 7:9,4; and also key to God being a “jealous God”, which is a - good - thing!} 3 But I’m fearful that as the serpent {seraphim?} [ophis - snake; symbolizing deceit, danger, and evil; serpent] deceived Eve by his cunning, that your thinking will be led astray from the sincere and pure devotion to Christ!
4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you first received, or if you accept a different gospel {different message} from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough! 5 Let me say {foolishly} that I consider I am not in the least inferior to these ‘superior apostles’ {claiming levels and assigning theirselves as on a higher level than the others is no sign of maturity or superiority}. 6 Even if I were unskilled in my words, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in many ways and in all things.
7 Or do I commit a sin in humbling myself so you might be lifted up in your spirit? Or because I preached and taught God's message to you free of charge? 8 I accepted from other churches in order to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and was in need, I didn’t burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. So I didn’t burden you and will continue to not burden you in any way.
🌙 John 3:1-12
1 - Now there was a man of the Pharisee party whose name was Nicodemus, a leader and ruler of the Jews. 2 He came out to see Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you’re a teacher come from God. For no one can do these signs, that you’ve been doing, unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you, unless someone is born again they can’t see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said, “How can a person be born when they’re old? Can they enter a second time into their mother's womb to be born again?”
5 Jesus said, “Unless one is born of water {natural birth from the womb} aNd, of the Spirit {of God, his Presence} they can’t enter into the kingdom of God. 6 Because what is produced by flesh/matter is flesh/matter {that which is mortal is mortal} and that which is produced of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Don’t wonder that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where the wind blows, and you hear the sound of it, but you don’t know exactly where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone having been born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus said, “How can this be?” 10 Jesus answered, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you don’t understand? 11 Truly, I tell you, what’s known is what someone will speak. And what someone sees, is what they’ll bear witness to. But my witness/testimony isn’t received.
12 If I’ve told you the earthly and you don’t believe me, how will you believe if I tell you the heavenly?”
Tomorrows verses, 01/07
2 Corinthians 11:10-29 John 3:13-24
Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)
have a great day! ☀️🕊️
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