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2 Timothy 1
:5 – Faith in the grandma Lois, and mother Eunice—Timothy's maternal ancestry of faith!
:7 – For God hath not given the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.~Very famously quoted, for obvious reasons! I am sure that the spirit of fear is different than having the fear of the Lord.~
2 Timothy 2
:3 – Enduring hardness encompasses so many things. Such great advice still for today.
:14 – This should be part of the 10 commandments so people will remember it better! Don't strive or fight about words! Wow, again, we would have such fewer denominations if it weren't for word fights.
:22 - This gives me the impression that Timothy was a young guy...at least younger than Paul
:25 – Those that oppose themselves – still a hard road to hoe, as they say. When we oppose ourselves, no one can say anything right to us. This is, according to :26, the snare of the devil. We will be offended no matter what. And when someone is in that state, they oppose themselves. If they embraced themselves, they could embrace their siblings in Christ...Love one another as you love yourselves kinda thing. This is my take on the matter.~
2 Timothy 3
I wonder how many times of “last days” have been since Jesus? Or has this been a long stretch of last days?
2 Timothy 4
Another entire chapter I'd like to quote. Paul is giving final instructions to Timothy, as he says he's finished his race (:7)...telling him to Preach the WORD...no matter what!
Titus 1
:3 – Preaching manifests God's word!
:4 – Common Faith – One of my favorite messages is titled this, preached by Joyce Still. Http://www.joycestill.homestead.com
:15 – Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.~One of my favorite mantras is “All means all. What does that leave out?”~
Titus 2
Instructions for the elderly.
Instructions for young men and servants.
Titus 3
:5 – Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost~Another verse used to explain the plan of salvation.
:9 – Paul keeps instructing that long genealogies are useless. That must have been a thing back then to trace your lineage back to prove something.
:13 – Zenas the lawyer is requested
Philemon 1
So far, in all of Paul's letters (isn't it amazing, by the way, how many of them there are in the NT—considering his past) Paul introduces himself as Paul, an apostle of Christ, or Paul, a servant of Christ. This time, he introduces himself as the prisoner of Christ.
:10 – Onesimus is mentioned by Paul quite frequently, I've noticed. A book of Onesimus, perhaps, somewhere?
Hebrews 1
:3 – All things are upheld by the word of God's power.
:13-14 – Angel verses.
Hebrews 2
:10 – For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things; in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.~All those sufferings couldn't have happened before Jesus was born. Some had to happen on the earth. I fear to expound on this because I know the religious mind.~
Hebrews 3
Remember the builder of the house.
:7-8 – Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness
:13 - The deceitfulness of sin hardens us.
Hebrews 4
:9-10 – There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
~Maybe Onesimus wrote this book! It is mostly about rest, I've noticed. On my first long fast, I read this book and Revelation.~
Hebrews 5
:2 – High priests are compassed with infirmities to have compassion on people and to offer gifts and sacrifices to God for people.
:5 – Is begotten the same as born?
:8-9 – Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. ~See my note on Hebrews 2.~
Hebrews 6
:12 – Another reference to following someone following Christ...followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
:19 – Hope is the anchor of the soul.
~Many references in Hebrews already to Jesus being a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.~
Hebrews 7
:2 – King of Salem = King of Peace
~~~Melchisedec chapter~~~
:16 – power of an endless life – looks like we have that power now, too! Thank you Jesus!
Hebrews 8
:6 – more excellent ministry
:13 – The old law waxes old like the old mannah in the wilderness.
Hebrews 9
:14 - How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ~ I wonder how many dead works are still present in today's church.
:23 – Patterns in the heavens also have to be purified.
:27-28 – And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.~Ooooh boy I love this. People would have to lose some doctrines if they read this whole passage IN CONTEXT! Yes, I agree that some concepts are clear without context, but on the other hand, others can be completely reversed in meaning due to lack of context.~
Hebrews 10
:5-7 - Lo I come, in the volume of the book, it is written of me...to do thy will. ~A great song! Haven't been able to find it online.~
:20 – The veil is Jesus' flesh.
:25 – Don't forsake the assembly together (of the saints).
:32 – But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions~Sometimes I just like to quote verses we never hear preached for some reason. And this takes away the illusion of getting your harp and cloud the day of praying the sinners prayer-never experiencing another heartache or hardship.~
:38 – The just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 11
:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ~Probably my favorite all time faith-chapter of the Bible.~
:10 – Abraham looked for God's city with foundations.
:23 – How could Moses by faith do this as an infant? Faith must be something above and beyond the act of believing.
Hebrews 12
Read it. (Both ways.)
Hebrews 13
:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. ~Still healing. Still delivering. Still saving. Still correcting. Still amazing!~
:12 - There are still legitimate ministers and ministries suffering outside the gates. Outside the city of the fellowship of the saints.
James 1
Trials, temptations, tests, talk, tongue...practical advice.
:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.~To me, every is like all. It leaves nothing out.~
:19 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James 2
Have no respect of persons...as in be equal in perspective of people...treat all the same.
:17 - Faith makes you work, alright. And certainly has works that follow it.
:22 - Faith is made perfect through works.
~~51 more pages! Glory to God! Hey, a day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day! I'm right on time!~~~
