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The wealthy, wicked people freely manipulate the means of wealth, such as by moving a landmark to claim possession of the land of others (Proverb 23:10), thus depriving the oppressed of their ability to earn a living (verse 2), and by discriminating against the marginalized - the fatherless, the widow, and the poor (verses 3–4a).
In Matthew, the previous verses imply it can mean placing anything above God. Leon Morris notes that the Greek: δουλεύειν, douleuein, translated as serve, literally means be a slave to, unlike in Luke where the reference is to servants. [1] The Holman Christian Standard Bible translated the phrase as "No one can be a slave of two ...
This text overthrows Nestorius, who asserted that it was not the very Word, even God, Who the Self-same was made man, being conceived of the sacred blood of the Virgin: but that the Virgin brought forth a man endowed with every kind of virtue, and that the Word of God was united to him: thus making out two sons, one born of the Virgin, i. e ...
The third is oppression of the poor, fatherless children, and widows. How God punished Pharaoh and the Egyptians for oppressing the Israelites, the scripture doth show. Oppressors cannot escape God's vengeance. The fourth sin that crieth to God for vengeance is to keep back the wages of the hired servant of workman when he hath done his service ...
In The Satanic Bible, Belial is listed as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell, and the third book of The Satanic Bible is the The Book of Belial. [32] In 1937, Edgar Cayce used the term "sons of belial" and (in opposition to) the "sons of the law of one" for the first time in one of his deep trance readings given between 1923 and 1945. Cayce ...
Verse 9 alludes to Exodus 20:13–15, Deuteronomy 5:17–19, 21, and Leviticus 19:18. The King James Bible includes "You shall not bear false witness" in the verse because of its presence in the Textus Receptus. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges suggests that it is "perhaps to be omitted, on documentary evidence". [10]
Perhaps the first book of the Bible provides a clue. Antisemitism explained in the Bible The Book of Genesis in Chapter 26 illuminates a pattern that has repeated itself for literally thousands of ...
Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed.