Tag: law
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When Words Are Added
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. Acts 21:25 (KJV) They observe no such thing, save only – Have you ever studied this verse? Most…
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Written On Their Hearts
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;…
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Covenant or Law
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. Deuteronomy 31:26 (KJV) Book of the law – There’s considerable study in comparative analysis with the relationship of the Israelites to their…
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Torah, the Teachings of God
Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept His statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk. Amos 2:4 (JPS) Law – The law was not…
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Easier to Swallow
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Psalm 119:1 (KJV) Law – We know this word; it is Torah in Hebrew. But “law” is probably not the best translation. “Law” turns people away. Who needs the law of God when we have the grace of Jesus? All…
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Separation Destroys Us
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 1 Corinthians 14:21 (KJV) In the law it is written – I find it interesting that Paul, a man who had Torah…
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Entered into a Curse
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; Nehemiah 10:29 (KJV) Curse – Doesn’t…
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Is He Writing to You?
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? Romans 7:1 (KJV) Know – Modern day Christianity loves to apply Paul’s writings as if he was speaking to us personally in our current day culture. But he wasn’t.…
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Practicing Righteousness
Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 1 John 3:7 (NASB) Practices – The common theology of righteousness in mainstream Christianity is that the only way to be righteous is through Yeshua alone – only him. Any work you do is like filthy rags…
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A Comparison Operator != Common Theology
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4 (KJV) Is – This word is definitely a comparison operator, as we’d call it in the programming world. A comparison operator states that the first item is equal to the following item. This is what John is doing here, he…