But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must beContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 17-22….A clear reprimand!”
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Ecclesiastes 9: 7-10….Winding up the book.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you underContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 7-10….Winding up the book.”
Ecclesiastes 9: 1-6….Death Comes to All – a cause to think deeply.
But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and theContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 1-6….Death Comes to All – a cause to think deeply.”
Ecclesiastes 8: 14-17….Do you get the meaning?
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. And I commend joy, for man hasContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 8: 14-17….Do you get the meaning?”
Ecclesiastes 8: 10-13….Hypocrisy!
Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set toContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 8: 10-13….Hypocrisy!”
Ecclesiastes 8: 1-9….Under Authority.
Who is like the wise?And who knows the interpretation of a thing?A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,and the hardness of his face is changed.I say: Keep the king’s command, because of God’s oath to him. Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for heContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 8: 1-9….Under Authority.”
Ecclesiastes 7: 25-29….What on earth is he talking about?
I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He whoContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 7: 25-29….What on earth is he talking about?”
Ecclesiastes 7: 14-24….Why ‘overly’?
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, andContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 7: 14-24….Why ‘overly’?”
Ecclesiastes 7: 7-13….Some good advice.
Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,and a bribe corrupts the heart.Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,for anger lodges in the heart of fools.Say not, “Why were the former days better thanContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 7: 7-13….Some good advice.”
1 Corinthians 11: 8-16….The explanation continued.
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; forContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 8-16….The explanation continued.”
As I read it! 