N.Testament & Prophecy Advanced CU Study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
• Romans 12:10-21 Matthew 15:1-20
☀️ Romans 12:10-21
10 - Love one another with brotherly and sisterly affection. Try to out do one another in showing honor to each another. 11 Don’t be spiritually lazy and disinterested, but fervent in spirit, and serve the Lord! 12 Rejoice in hope [elpis - expectation, trust, confidence]. {Rejoice in trust and confidence!} Be patient in times of trouble, praying always.
13 Contribute to the needs of others and show lots of hospitality. 14 Bless those who don’t bless you. And don’t curse those who curse you, or who persecute you. 15 Be happy with those who are happy, and sad with those who are sad.
16 Live in harmony with one another. Don’t be haughty and stuck up, but freely associate with all. Including those considered lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but consider and do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 Live peacefully with all, as much as it depends upon you.
19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God {cause and effect, imo} for it’s written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the LORD.” 20 But instead, “feed an enemy if they’re hungry, and give them a drink if they’re thirsty. For by so doing you will heap burning coals {of repentance} on their head.” 21 Don’t become entrapped in any reaction or snare of evil but overcome evil with good. {Overcome hate with love, beware the demon of hate/rage.}
🌙 Matthew 15:1-20
1 - Some Pharisees and scribes came along, from Jerusalem and asked Jesus, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!” 3 He answered, “Let me ask you, why do you break the commandment/instruction of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For didn’t God command, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘the one who curses father or mother in death ends.’ {A literal rendering.} 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What I would have given to you as aid {in your old age} is instead given to God” [put in “trust” and set aside as an offering to them!] 6 then they need not honor mother or father.’ So for the sake of your tradition, you have annulled the word of God.
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said, 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments, (guidance, instructions) of men.’”
10 And he called the people to him and told them, “Hear and understand, 11 it’s not what goes into the mouth that ruins a person, but what comes out of the mouth.”
12 A little later, the disciples said to him, “Did you know the Pharisees were offended at what you said?” 13 He answered, “Every plant my heavenly Father hasn’t planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them be, they’re blind guides. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15 Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And Jesus said, “Do you not see? 17 What goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. And this can bring ruin. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness/accusation, slander. 20 These are what pollutes. But to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t pollute.” {Speaking slander and accusation, as they did about Jesus and later believers, is surely(?) evidence of contamination of the heart. Blind guides guiding - embracing power. The proof is their stirring of mobs against? (As recorded in Acts and Jesus’ execution.) And their murders.. Fruits of the flesh, “wars among you”, slander, accusations, division, factions, discord and dispute, Gal.5:19-26. Habitually human, same old, same old, since Cain slew Abel.}
Tomorrows verses, 02/25
Romans 13:1-8 John 6:41-51
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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