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Who were the "poor among the saints" in Jerusalem?
Near the end of Romans there are details about financial relationships between churches. It's never really occurred to me to read it as anything but the face value in English:
Romans 15:25-26 (ESV)
25 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem…
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What is the intent of 1 Corinthians 11:19?
This verse is cited in support of the idea that differences of opinion among Christians is a good thing.
However on reading a different translation I got a little confused -
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that
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What did Isaiah intend with his unusual usage of "create" in Isaiah 45:7?
In Isaiah 45:7 (ESV):
I form light and create darkness,
I make well-being and create calamity,
I am the LORD, who does all these things.
The word "create" (01254) is the same word used in Genesis 1:1 (ESV):
In the beginning, God created the…
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If it's a mirror, what is being reflected in 1 Cor 13:12?
If we accept that Paul is speaking of a mirror in 1 Cor 13:12, as some think to be the case (1 Corinthians 13:12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly"), then what is being reflected?
I had always thought of it more as seeing God and truth…
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What does "an apple of gold in a picture of silver" represent in Proverbs of Solomon?
What does "a word fitly spoken is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver" (Proverbs 25:11) mean?
I know that an apple is a fruit but the apple of gold in a picture of silver part I can't understand.
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1 Corinthians 13:10 - What does Paul mean by "Completeness"?
What are the meanings given the original Greek word?
NIV, 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 - Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we…
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What Does the Greek Word ‘Didaskein’ mean in 1 Timothy 2:12?
1 Timothy 2:12 says:
“But I suffer not a woman to teach [διδάσκειν], nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence” (KJV).
The word 'didaskein' translated 'to teach' has me a tad baffled. According to Strong’s concordance, the…
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In Psalm 12:6-7 who or what will God preserve from that generation?
I'm doing a personal Bible study on the KJV Only doctrine. KJVO advocates point to Psalm 12:6-7 as evidence for the inerrancy of the KJV (or the source manuscripts used by them).
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace…
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Why does Joshua set up 12 stones in the midst of the Jordan River?
After the nation of Israel passes over the Jordan River, God commanded Joshua:
Josh 4:2 'Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a
man, Josh 4:3 and command ye them, saying: Take you hence out of the
midst of the Jordan,…
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"the first day of the week" in 1 Corinthians 16:2
I heard somewhere that in 1 Corinthians 16:2
Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in
store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
come
There is some ambiguity about "the first day of the…
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What does it mean "to quench" in 1 Thessalonians 5:19?
In 1 Thessalonians 5:19 we read:
Quench not the Spirit. (KJV)
According to Strong's, "Quench" is the word 4570 σβέννυμι, which means "I extinguish, quench, I suppress, thwart."
The dictionary definition is:
to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst,…
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Genesis 3:16 - "Pain in Childbearing" or "Toil and Childbearing"
I recently came across a translation of Genesis 3:16 that seems to reinterpret the pronouncement on Eve. Carol Meyers* translates the first part of the verse like so:
"I will greatly increase your work and your pregnancies; / (Along) with toil you…
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Why did God appear as a firepot and torch to Abram?
So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not…
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How would Adam know what "you shall surely die" meant?
In Genesis 2, God warns Adam not to eat of a certain tree and threatens punishment or consequences if he disobeys:
17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”…
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Was Zechariah simply mute, or deaf as well?
In Luke 1 (ESV), Zechariah the priest is rendered mute for his lack of faith:
19 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 And behold, you will be…
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