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Joel 2:25 supports individual freedom of conscience for all, but believes that sexual purity is a life and death matter: "Sexual holiness for Christians matters to such an extent that living an unrepentant sexually immoral life can get even self-professed Christians excluded from the kingdom of God".
[26] Joel 3:10 / 4:10 is a variation of Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3's prophecy, "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks", [27] instead commanding, "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears." [28]
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Joel is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible, in the introduction to that book, as the son of Pethuel ().The name combines the covenant name of God, YHWH (or Yahweh), and El (god), and has been translated as "YHWH is God" or "one to whom YHWH is God," that is, a worshiper of YHWH.
[1] [2] [3] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Zechariah. In the Hebrew Bible it is part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets . [ 4 ] This chapter is a part of a section consisting of Zechariah 9 – 14 , [ 5 ] attributed to the so-called "Second Zechariah", an anonymous successor to the Zechariah of chapters 1-8.
The New King James Version (NKJV) organises this chapter as follows: Jeremiah 1:1–3 = Jeremiah Called to Be a Priest; Jeremiah 1:4–19 = The Prophet Is Called, while the Evangelical Heritage Version notes that Jeremiah's first visions begin from verse 11. [6] The Old Testament scholar J. A. Thompson organises the chapter as follows. [7]
N. T. Wright, former Bishop of Durham, says that 1 Timothy 2 is the "hardest passage of all" to exegete properly. [17] A number of interpretive approaches to the text have been made by both complementarians and egalitarians. The 1 Timothy 2:12 passage is only one "side" of a letter written by Paul, and is directed at a particular group.
The biblical narrative of Pentecost is given in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.Present were about one hundred and twenty followers of Christ (), including the Twelve Apostles (i.e. the eleven disciples and Matthias, who had replaced Judas Iscariot), [7] Jesus' mother Mary, various other women disciples and Jesus' brothers ().