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106 Bible verses that are difficult to explain
I've found that the best way to explain something truly difficult is to have lived it firsthand. Walking the walk every day gives you the tools you need to share a message of salvation that can really reach people. There's just nothing like sharing a life-changing message that's rooted in your own experiences.
But here's the thing: it's so important to remember the role of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit has the full picture and the patience to guide us into a deeper understanding. We can't just rely on our own thinking or even other people's stories, because we might find ourselves at a loss when we try to share something we haven't truly encountered ourselves.
The Holy Spirit is ready and willing to teach us today. It's all about being open to that guidance.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks. And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.So the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
However, in the cities of the nations that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you,
Jephthah made this vow to the Lord: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge? so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavenswhen the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lionsWhere were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him.Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the Lord, do all these things.
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the Lord.
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,
For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.Then you, My people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.’”
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink?When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?When did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?’But the wise ones took oil in flasks along with their lamps.And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with soresand longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words.These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’ Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right handuntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’ Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,not by works, so that no one can boast.
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
This is what the Lord says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” “The Lord has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.”
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it. Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.