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Ephesians 6Armor of God
Philippians 1
:5 - God will finish what he starts in us
:15-18 - Paul doesn't care why people are preaching Christ, he's just happy the gospel is going forth.
Philippians 2
:6 - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
:6 - who,
:6 - who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ESV
:6 - who,
:6 - who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, ASV
:6 - who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God, YNG
:6 - who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; DBY
~These are just some of the many translations available on http://www.blueletterbible.org
Isn't it wild how different versions say the opposite thing on the same verse???~
:25 - Epaphroditus was Paul's natural or spiritual brother?
Philippians 3
:13-14 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4
:4 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.
~Actually, this whole chapter is full of quotables. Read it again!~
Colossians 1
:23 - Grounded and settled in faith.
:27 - To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Colossians 2
:8 - Philosophies and traditions of men won't get you anywhere but confused!
:18 - I have met people who worship angels and think of this verse often. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,~in other words, don't let anyone make you feel bad about it.
Colossians 3
:14 - Love is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 4
Closing words
1 Thessalonians 1
Thank you everyone!
1 Thessalonians 2
:7 - Gentle with people like a nurse/nanny to children.
1 Thessalonians 3
It is like Paul is saying "Remember last time we were there when..."
1 Thessalonians 4
:11 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; ~Nothing wrong about living a quiet life!
:15-17 - It is amazing to me how many doctrines have come out of this one passage.
1 Thessalonians 5
:23-24 - Another good benediction~ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].
2 Thessalonians 1
:5 - Suffering for the kingdom of God
2 Thessalonians 2
:11 - God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie ~ It's hard to imagine that God would do this.
:13 - chosen for salvation from the beginning
2 Thessalonians 3
:1 - I'm still praying this - for the word of God to have freecourse
:11 - I know we got those non-working busybodies still today!
1 Timothy 1
:17 - Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
:20 -Paul delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan for blaspheming...and to learn not to. Wow! That's power!
1 Timothy 2
:4 - Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. ~What can I add?!
1 Timothy 3
To be a bishop...
To be a deacon...
1 Timothy 4
:4-5 - I believe this, but I also believe in having wisdom on what to eat in the first place...not to require God to do a supernatural healing on us because we ate bad stuff.
1 Timothy 5
How to rebuke...
Who to honor....
:23 - AMEN!
1 Timothy 6
:6 - But godliness with contentment is great gain.
:10 - For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.~Too often this is misquoted to say that money itself is evil, when clearly that is not the bottom line of this verse.~
:17-18 - Instructions to rich people include being willing to communicate. I've always been fascinated by that.
~~~OK, I'm on the fast-track now! Only 3 more posts and 90 pages of reading to go!~~~
