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- 506) 2John 1:5-6 . . And now I beseech you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the...

- 504) 1John 5:16-17 . . If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin...

- Genesis 31:51-54 ● Gen 31:51 . . And Laban said to Jacob: Here is this mound and here the pillar which I have set up between you and me: Laban didn't set up anything. He only participated in dedicating the pillar. Jacob and his sons set it up with their own hands. And it was all their own...

- Genesis 31:50 ● Gen 31:50 . . If you ill-treat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters-- though no one else be about, remember, God Himself will be witness between you and me. Had Jacob ever ill treated Rachel and Leah all those years in Laban's employ? When had the girls ever...

- 502) 1John 4:1 . . Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. The koiné Greek word for "spirits" is pneuma (pnyoo'-mah) which means, among other things; a current of air; viz: winds and...

- 501) 1John 3:18 . . My little children, let us not love only in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. What is truth? (John 18:38) Pilate's question was meaningful in his day because ancient philosophers perpetually discussed and debated the nature of truth without ever achieving a...

- Genesis 31:42-49 ● Gen 31:42 . . Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God took notice of my plight and the toil of my hands, and He gave judgment last night. Anyone there that day, who had the...

- Well; I tend to think that if Rachel was strong enough to travel across country on the back of a jostling camel, then she was certainly strong enough to stand for a moment or two. I also rather tend to think that Rachel's choice of words indicated to her dad that she had better sense than...

- Genesis 31:33-41 ● Gen 31:33-35 . . So Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent. . . . Rachel, meanwhile, had taken the idols and placed them in the camel cushion and sat on...

- 500) 1John 3:11-13 . . For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another-- not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be perplexed, my...

- Genesis 31:29b-32 ● Gen 31:29b . . but the God of your father The "god of your father" is all the same as saying your family's god. There a humorous difference between Jacob's family god and Laban's family gods. Jacob's family god can't be kidnapped and carried around in a saddle bag. ● Gen...

- 498) 1John 3:6-8 . .Whoever abides in him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen him nor known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who sins is of the Devil, for the devil has been sinning from the...

- Genesis 31:22-29a ● Gen 31:22 . . On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled. Laban was off some distance from home shearing his sheep, which usually included a festival of some sort. The messengers probably waited till the shearing was done, and the party was over, before laying...

- 497) 1John 2:28 . . And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. Jesus had quite a bit to say about abiding in him at John 15:1-10; which is just about an impossibility if the little children give no...

- Genesis 31:14-21 ● Gen 31:14-15 . .Then Rachel and Leah replied and said to him: Have we then still a share and an inheritance in our father's house? Are we not considered by him as strangers? For he has sold us and even totally consumed our money! Now the truth comes out. All along the...

- Genesis 31:1-13 ● Gen 31:1 . . Now he heard the things that Laban's sons were saying: Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from that which was our father's he has built up all this wealth. People have a habit of using the "all" word just a little to the extreme. Jacob certainly...

- 496) 1John 2:24 . . Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. The trick to abiding in Jesus Christ is to first off have at your disposal...

- 494 2Pet 3:17 . .You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness, "unprincipled" is translated from the Greek word athesmos (ath'-es-mos) which appears in only two places in the...

- Genesis 30:40-43 ● Gen 30:40a . . And Jacob culled the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; That trick was expected to have the same effect as looking at striped rods. ● Gen 30:40b-43 . . and he put his own herds apart, and did not put...

- Genesis 30:28-39 ● Gen 30:28 . . And he said: Specify your wage to me and I will give it. The wage Laban had in mind wasn't an hourly rate or monthly salary like we typically think of wages. Pay was a separate matter to be negotiated later. The deal they would make concerned what it would...