My son, keep your father’s commandment,and forsake not your mother’s teaching.Bind them on your heart always;tie them around your neck.When you walk, they will lead you;when you lie down, they will watch over you;and when you awake, they will talk with you.For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,and the reproofs ofContinue reading “Proverbs 6: 20-35”
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Luke 6: 43-49…Quality and Permanence
For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, andContinue reading “Luke 6: 43-49…Quality and Permanence”
Luke 6: 27-42..Living with neighbours
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. GiveContinue reading “Luke 6: 27-42..Living with neighbours”
Luke 6: 20-26 – Blessings and woes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said:“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you andContinue reading “Luke 6: 20-26 – Blessings and woes”
Luke 6: 12-19
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, andContinue reading “Luke 6: 12-19”
Luke 6: 1-11
Luke 6: 1-11 (ESV) On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not readContinue reading “Luke 6: 1-11”
Galatians 4: 21-28….Allegorically speaking!
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the freeContinue reading “Galatians 4: 21-28….Allegorically speaking!”
Luke 5: 33-39
Luke 5; 33-39 (ESV) And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroomContinue reading “Luke 5: 33-39”
Luke 5: 27-32
Luke 5: 27-32 (ESV) After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors andContinue reading “Luke 5: 27-32”
Luke 5: 17-26
Luke 5: 17-26 (ESV) On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bedContinue reading “Luke 5: 17-26”
As I read it! 