1 Cast your bread upon the waters,for you will find it after many days.2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.3 If the clouds are full of rain,they empty themselves on the earth,and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,inContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 11 :1-5….More thought-provoking proverbs.”
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Ecclesiastes 10: 16-20….Good Advice!
16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,and your princes feast in the morning!17 Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility,and your princes feast at the proper time,for strength, and not for drunkenness!18 Through sloth the roof sinks in,and through indolence the house leaks.19Continue reading “Ecclesiastes 10: 16-20….Good Advice!”
Ecclesiastes 10: 8-15….Aids to Living.
8 He who digs a pit will fall into it,and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.9 He who quarries stones is hurt by them,and he who splits logs is endangered by them.10 If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge,he must use more strength,but wisdom helps oneContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 10: 8-15….Aids to Living.”
Ecclesiastes 10: 1-7….Against folly
Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench;so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right,but a fool’s heart to the left.Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense,and he says to everyone that he is a fool.If the anger of the rulerContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 10: 1-7….Against folly”
Ecclesiastes 9: 11-18….Choose wisdom!
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. For man does not know his time. Like fish that areContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 11-18….Choose wisdom!”
1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as toContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.”
1 Corinthians 12: 21-31a….Continuing the body illustration…
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestowContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 21-31a….Continuing the body illustration…”
1 Corinthians 12: 12-20….A Body has many bits and pieces!
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one SpiritFor the body doesContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 12-20….A Body has many bits and pieces!”
1 Corinthians 12: 1-11….Christians, by the will of God have different ‘gifts’.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one canContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 1-11….Christians, by the will of God have different ‘gifts’.”
1 Corinthians 11: 23-34….The proper Way to…
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way alsoContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 23-34….The proper Way to…”
As I read it! 