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. There are lots of other spiritual gifts besides tongues. For example some folks have an aptitude for analyzing and debunking cults like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. And there are some very good at counseling. And I've heard there are Christian psychologists too. Most folks are...

. 276) 1Tim 2:8-9 . . I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and evil thoughts. Holy hands are loyal hands. Other kinds of hands should be kept at one's side till such a time as they qualify as true blue, thru and thru. The Greek word for "wrath"...

Quite a few Christians don't see the gift of tongues as a priority because according to 1Cor 12:11 and 1Cor 12:28-30 not everyone has it. _

. ● Eph 5:33b . . The wife must respect her husband. The Greek verb for respect essentially refers to "fright" and is used just that way in numerous places throughout the New Testament. Some translate it "reverence" defined by Webster's as honor or respect; felt or shown; which means that...

Considering the gravity of this matter, everyone really ought to seek a way to assure themselves they have the Spirit. ● Rom 8:9 . .You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he...

It's my understanding that an unknown tongue is a real-life language other than your native language. For example my native language is English. Were my speech to come out in Swahili, that would be, for me, an unknown tongue, i.e. a language with which I am unfamiliar. Well; I think in...

. Has turning the other cheek gone out of vogue? ● Gal 5:15 . . But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another! Biting and devouring one another describes cannibals and carnivorous beasts. ● 1Pet 2:21-23 . .To this you were called, because Christ...

That particular sin has to be deliberate rather than the result of an honest mistake; for example: "Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said: Could this be the Son of...

. ● Gen 3:16c . .Your desire shall be for your husband, The Hebrew of that passage is apparently somewhat difficult as even the great rabbis Rashi and Ramban were in disagreement how best to interpret it. The Hebrew word translated "desire" shows up so infrequently in the Bible that it's...

. ● 1Pet 3:7b . . Give honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, NOTE: Although husbands are senior in the Christian marriage relationship, their position doesn't grant them carte blanch to mistreat their wives any more than Jesus has carte blanch to mistreat his church. (cf. Eph 5:28-30)...

. ● Matt 19:4-6 . . Have you not read? He who made them at the beginning made them male and female and said: For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Women in one flesh...

. ● 1Cor 14:34 . . Let the women keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but let them subject themselves, just as the Law also says. It could be argued, with some merit, that this rule applies only to tongues and prophecy; but Paul expanded its scope in a letter to his...

. ● Eph 5:22 . .Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. In other words; it's not the husband himself who merits his wife's best behavior, rather, it's her man's status relative to Christ's. Now, it goes without saying that Jesus is the superior among his own because God has given him...

. ● 1Pet 3:6 . . . Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; and you have become her daughters if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. * An example of Sarah's calling her spouse "lord" is located in Gen 18:12 Anyway; Sarah's arrangement with Abraham was voluntary, i.e. she...

Real-life foreign languages serve a practical application. For example: ● 1Cor 14:21-22 . . In the law it is written; "With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me: saith the Lord." Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to...

. 275) 1Tim 1:3-5 . . As I urged you when I went into Macedonia-- remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith. Compare 2Thess 2:15 where it...

. How would they of the circumcision know Cornelius' household was praising God unless the tongues they spoke were real-life foreign languages? _

. I was baptized an infant into a religion that prays to saints and angels. It was years later that I discovered praying to saints and angels is not a good idea because for one thing, folks unified with Christ are urged to pray to their creator rather than to one of His creations. ● Gal 4:6 . ...

. 274) 2Thess 3:14 . . If anyone does not obey our commands in this letter, take special note of him. Do not associate with him, in order that he may feel ashamed. Back then when churches were small cells meeting in private homes rather than auditoriums seating hundreds of people, it was easy...

. 273) 2Thess 3:11-13 . .We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat. And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right. I'm pretty sure that the...