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Romans 8:31-39
More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [b]39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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DocSavage · M

“ PRINTED IN CHINA”
You’ll find it on the back cover. Chokes me up every time.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@DocSavage Well, it has been said that the bible IS a book of truth. So there goes your proof.

MoonlightLullaby

I love the whole book of Psalms. It's too difficult to choose a favorite verse. 😌

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MoonlightLullaby

@SW-User I didn't know you were a veteran. Thank you for your service. I have such high respect for those in uniform. You're my heroes.♥️🤍💙

SW-User

@MoonlightLullaby I meant veterans of the Bible but I did do 4 years in the Army.

MoonlightLullaby

@SW-User Ooopsy🤭

Oh well, I was half correct 😉😏

fun4us2b · M

From my limited knowledge - Book of Job - after God takes everything from Job, and he's like: Is that all you got? Bring it!

From Wiki - God tells Eliphaz that he and the two other friends "have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has done". The three (Elihu, the critic of Job and his friends, is not mentioned here) are told to make a burnt offering with Job as their intercessor, "for only to him will I show favour". Job is restored to health, riches and family, and lives to see his children to the fourth generation.

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RocktheHouse · M

@Pikachu According to the Talmud, the book of Job is an allegory. I've always found it difficult to believe someone sat there and wrote down verbatim that conversation between Job and his three friends - Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar,

Pikachu

@RocktheHouse

One of the oldest books too, if i'm not mistaken.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

According to the Talmud, the book of Job is an allegory. I've always found it difficult to believe someone sat there and wrote down verbatim that conversation between Job and his three friends - Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar,

Don't you know that the most popular job in ancient times was to be a personal stenographer to the biblical characters? How else would we know what they said when it was just two people yakking in the desert?

QueenOfZaun · 26-30, F

Ezekiel 25:17

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides

By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men

Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will

Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness

For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children

And I will strike down upon thee

With great vengeance and furious anger

Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers

And you will know my name is the Lord

When I lay my vengeance upon thee

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@QueenOfZaun what?

Elessar · 26-30, M

Matthew 19:23 : I'll tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

With this verse alone you can discern pretty well who's a real Christian, from the majority who'll just use Christianity to push for conservative/regressive political agendas.

RocktheHouse · M

@Elessar The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10)... You cannot serve God and mammom (Matthew 6:24). True brother. I've known atheists who were more Christian than many of those claiming to be Christian.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@RocktheHouse Me too, lol

CestManan · 46-50, F

@Elessar It is easier for a camel to walk through the gates of heaven than it is for a man to walk through the eye of a needle. Something like that

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Imsleepy · 31-35

Kings, chapter 2, verses 23 and 24.

KJV

23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

RocktheHouse · M

@Imsleepy That is a little barbaric.

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RocktheHouse · M

@SW-User Fascinatingly, that particular prophecy came truth. 2 Kings 6:28-29:

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

Fascinatingly, that particular prophecy came truth. 2 Kings 6:28-29:

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

Well, sometimes the menu was very limited:

You can't eat shellfish, pork, camel, tuna, ostriches, or rabbits or yeast bread but you can eat your newborn baby and its afterbirth and children as long as they're roasted.

But you can eat a donkey's head and pigeon shit when you get hungry =
2 Kings 6:25 (CEV) = They kept up the attack until there was nothing to eat in the city. In fact, a donkey's head cost 80 pieces of silver, and a small bowl of pigeon droppings cost 5 pieces of silver."

Once things get really tight you can always eat your own shit and drink your own piss.
2 Kings 18:27 (CEV) = "The Assyrian army commander answered, “My king sent me to speak to everyone, not just to you leaders. These people will soon have to eat their own body waste and drink their own urine! And so will the three of you.”

But stay away from the foods you are not supposed to eat under any circumstances because that will really piss God off if you eat them.

GerOttman · 61-69, M

Romans 6:19,ESV: I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

FreeSpirit1 · F

The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. --Deuteronomy..
So believe in me or I'm going to put a magic curse on you, how charming. 🤣

helenS · 36-40, F

Here's mine: Isaiah 65:21-22

21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

1 Corinthians 11:6 (NCB) = "Indeed, if a woman refuses to wear a veil, then she might as well have her hair cut off. If it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should wear a veil."

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

Matthew 15:24 (CEV) = 24 Jesus said, “I was sent only to the people of Israel! They are like a flock of lost sheep.”

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

He was sent only to Israel, and he sent his disciples to spread the gospel to the world - matt. 28:19, "go and teach all nations," a fulfilment of the promise to Abraham - Genesis 12:3, "all nations will be blessed through you." Ergo, his 'seed' Jesus Christ, the savior of the world through his righteous teachings that has sprouted a global transformation

You are missing the point!

The tribes were scattered from Spain to Ethiopia to India.

Jesus concentrated on the Israelites in Palestine. The nations he spoke of did not include the Gentiles. He was a bigot and his message was not to the Gentiles.

Read the Bible for the way the word "nations" is used =

Genesis 35:9-11 (CEV) = "God Blesses Jacob at Bethel
After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying: I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings."

Genesis 48:19 (CEV) = "But his father said, “Son, I know what I am doing. It's true that Manasseh's family will someday become a great nation. But Ephraim will be even greater than Manasseh, because his descendants will become many great nations.”

Leviticus 4:13 (CEV) = "When the Whole Nation Sins
The Lord said:
When the nation of Israel disobeys me without meaning to, the whole nation is still guilty."

Leviticus 26:33 (CEV) = "After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations."

Deuteronomy 4:27 (CEV) = "Only a few of you will survive, and the Lord will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations."

Deuteronomy 7:1 (CEV) = "Force the Other Nations Out of the Land
(Exodus 34.11-16)
Moses said:
People of Israel, the Lord your God will help you take the land of the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. These seven nations have more people and are stronger than Israel, but when you attack them,"

Deuteronomy 7:17 (CEV) = "You may be thinking, “How can we destroy these nations? They are more powerful than we are.”"

There are 852 references to nations in the CEV so I'll stop here. But remember, Jesus focused his personal attention on the Israelites in Palestine/Canaan. The Apostles were supposed to go to the other lands and preach to the tribes that had been scattered as it says in Deuteronomy 4:27. Although Jesus was supposed to have been the son of God and could walk on water, he didn't have any wings so he couldn't fly from place to place and he would have needed the life span of Methuselah to have covered all of that area by himself.

RocktheHouse · M

@Diotrephes Greek word used in Matthew 28:19 - "go make disciples of all nations [ethnos].

1484 éthnos (from ethō, "forming a custom, culture") – properly, people joined by practicing similar customs or common culture; nation(s), usually referring to unbelieving Gentiles (non-Jews). 163 occurences

Luke 18:32
NAS: For He will be handed over to the Gentiles [éthnos] and will be mocked

all (panta) nations (ethnos) - meaning every nation on earth. Clearly, if he meant only descendants of Abraham, he would have used the same language as in Matthew 15:24 - the lost sheep of Israel.

Jesus Christ desire to save 'all nations,' including non-Israelites is also expressed in John 1:13 - They were born not of a bloodline [not descendants of Abraham], nor of human desire, nor of man’s will, but of God.

John the Baptist reiterate this - think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I. say unto you, that God is able of these. stones to raise up children unto Abraham (Matthew 3:9).

Paul, again reiterates Jesus Christ desire to save 'all nations,' in Galatians 3:29 - If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

If that's not clear enough, keep it in context, Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Gentile[Hellén - Greek speaking non-jews], neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

If that's not clear enough, keep it in context, Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Gentile[Hellén - Greek speaking non-jews], neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

You keep overlooking the fact that the Jesus character never said one word about "saving" the Gentiles. The Saul/Paul preached that. Everything the Jesus character said in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John was specific to the Jews/Hebrews/Israelites. He didn't give a damn about the Gentiles and called them dogs and swine and specifically told his Apostles to avoid them.

The Greek version is a translation of the original Latin version.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

Revelation 16:8-11 (TLB) = "8 Then the fourth angel poured out his flask upon the sun, causing it to scorch all men with its fire. 9 Everyone was burned by this blast of heat, and they cursed the name of God who sent the plagues—they did not change their mind and attitude to give him glory.

10 Then the fifth angel poured out his flask upon the throne of the Creature from the sea, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. And his subjects gnawed their tongues in anguish, 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores, but they refused to repent of all their evil deeds."

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

And he said ‘go forth and eat all the sausage McMuffins.. for they shall give you peace”!

And chase the money lenders out the house..

GerOttman · 61-69, M

Proverbs 20:3

This may be my first tattoo...!!

"It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel."

Cuteboy12 · 16-17, M

Lots of the Earth he gave his only son so we could live without sin

RocktheHouse · M

@Cuteboy12 So, Protestantism 3:16?

Cuteboy12 · 16-17, M

@RocktheHouse yes

Carazaa · F

One I love is

Psalm 34:19
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but The Lord delivers them out of them all"

CopperCicada · M

The Sermon on the Plain. Luke 6:17–49.

But that’s cheating. The OP says a single verse or passage. This is several.

saragoodtimes · F

Proverb 31:6
let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those in anguish

RocktheHouse · M

@saragoodtimes 🤣misquoting scripture

TheWildEcho · 56-60, M

So many, Isaiah 53, Psalm 139 and this one

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

1 Timothy 2:10-13 (CEV) = "10 Women who claim to love God should do helpful things for others, 11 and they should learn by being quiet and paying attention. 12 They should be silent and not be allowed to teach or to tell men what to do. 13 After all, Adam was created before Eve,"

markansas

Romans 12:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord
that was when god was a god..

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

1 Timothy 2:9 (CEV) ="I would like for women to wear modest and sensible clothes. They should not have fancy hairdos, or wear expensive clothes, or put on jewelry made of gold or pearls."

seotelkniwt · F

Psalm 37:10-11, vs 37, Romans 6:7, Revelation 21:3-5, Acts 24:15, and Isaiah 26:19

seotelkniwt · F

Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:4

ViciDraco · 36-40, M

All of Deuteronomy is a real charm. But there are also some nice bits in Leviticus and Exodus where we are shown just how evil the fictional god character is.

helenS · 36-40, F

@ViciDraco Yes some parts of Deuteronomy may have been used as a template for Nazi Germany.

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RocktheHouse · M

@Diotrephes Aren't we blessed to live in a time of abundance? What would Americans do if food became scarce like that?

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

Aren't we blessed to live in a time of abundance? What would Americans do if food became scarce like that?

We are very fortunate right now but things are starting to fray. One day things will take a sharp turn for the worse and it will get very ugly. For some reason most people are incapable of looking two minutes ahead. You see it all the time when the weather gets bad and there are floods and power outages. It's hard to prepare for everything but, if you know things are going to get iffy, you should at least keep your car gassed up and have at least one case of drinking water on hand. But it seems like people don't watch the news. Too many are caught unprepared.

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