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- 83) 1Cor 7:20 . . Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him. In other words: Bloom where you're planted. There's no need to quit your job and sell your home in order to run off to God knows where and start an orphanage in some third world country. God can...

- Genesis 4:1 ● Gen 4:1a . . Now the man knew his wife Eve, There is more to knowledge than just information. Some kinds of knowledge can't be learned from a book or a lecture; they can only be learned by personal experience. Carnal knowledge is one of those kinds of knowing. It's one thing...

- 77) 1Cor 7:12 . . If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 78) 1Cor 7:13 . . And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. Christians are of course...

- Yom Kippur ● Lev 16:29-34 . . And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you; for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to...

- Genesis 3:23-24 ● Gen 3:23-24 . . So the Lord God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken. He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life. This is the...

- 76) 1Cor 7:11b . . and let not the husband put away his wife. A man doesn't have sufficient scriptural grounds for divorce just by his wife walking out on him. Now should his estranged wife take up with a lover during their separation; that would definitely be sufficient. (Matt 5:32) /

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- Genesis 3:21-22 ● Gen 3:21 . . And the Lord God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Precisely what species of animal God slaughtered in order to make the Adams their first suit of real clothing is unknown. That day, humans learned something about the advantages...

- 75) 1Cor 7:10-11a . . Unto the married I command-- yet not I, but The Lord --let not the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. Walking out on a husband when there is no scriptural cause to do so is wrong per se, but...

- Genesis 3:17-20 ● Gen 3:17a . .To Adam He said: Because you did as your wife said, and ate of the tree about which I commanded you; "You shall not eat of it" A portion of God's gripe with Adam was that he put a subordinate creature's wishes over and above the wishes of the creature's...

- 73) 1Cor 7:5 . . Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. The koiné word for "defraud" is apostereo (ap-os-ter-eh'-o) which means: to despoil...

- Genesis 3:15-16 ● Gen 3:15a . . I will put enmity between you and the woman, I don't think the kind of enmity that God spoke of was the kind where friends fall out of harmony; but rather, He decreed a sort of poetic justice; viz: "You caused her downfall; and now I'm going to make it so that...

- 70) 1Cor 6:20 . . For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Christ's crucifixion and resurrection liberated his followers from facing justice and the second death in the scene depicted at Rev 20:11-15. That was a mighty big favor...

- Genesis 3:14c ● Gen 3:14c . . On your belly shall you crawl and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. Ancient Jews thought maybe the Serpent was originally equipped with feet. T. Upon thy belly thou shalt go, and thy feet shall be cut off, and thy skin thou shalt cast away once in...

- 69) 1Cor 6:18 . . Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. The koiné Greek word for "fornication" is porneia (por-ni'-ah) which doesn't mean pornography; it means harlotry; a term that Webster's defines as...

- Genesis 3:12-14b ● Gen 3:12 . .The man said: The woman You put at my side-- she gave me of the tree, and I ate. Adam attempted to get himself off the hook by accusing God of product liability. Like: "This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't imposed that female upon me. Did I ask for a...

- Erotic Fantasies ● Matt 5:27-28 . .You have heard that it was said you shall not commit adultery; but I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Before we can even begin to apply what Christ said about adultery; we...

- 68) 1Cor 6:1-6 . . If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that...

- Genesis 3:8-11 ● Gen 3:8a . . They heard the voice of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; The Hebrew word for "voice" is somewhat ambiguous. It can not only indicate a vocal sound, but lots of other kinds of noises too; e.g. horns, crackling, snapping...

- 65) 1Cor 5:1-5 . . It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. And you have become arrogant, and have not mourned instead, in order that the one who had done this deed...