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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? The Lord gives goodness to the people, and so the passage teaches to look to the lives of birds as an example for life and ...
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence", [16] and Johann Bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers.
Thou Shalt Love - Sister Maurice Schnell. The Great Commandment (or Greatest Commandment) [a] is a name used in the New Testament to describe the first of two commandments cited by Jesus in Matthew 22 (Matthew 22:35–40), Mark 12 (Mark 12:28–34), and in answer to him in Luke 10 (Luke 10:27a):
In this verse Jesus presents the example of the lilies, who also do no labour. Spin in this verse is a reference to spinning thread, a labour-intensive but necessary part of making clothing. Spinning was traditionally women's work, something made explicit in Luke's version of this verse.
This verse is closely paralleled at Luke 7:6, but Matthew drops the extra complication of the Centurion first sending friends to talk to Jesus. [ 1 ] The Centurion clearly acknowledges his subordinate position to Jesus, though the term translated as Lord does not necessitate the Centurion recognize Jesus as divine.
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. The World English Bible translates the passage as: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God ...
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love" (NRSV 1989) In Judaism , love is often used as a shorter English translation. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Political theorist Daniel Elazar has suggested that chesed cannot easily be translated into English, but that it means something like 'loving covenant obligation'. [ 9 ]
Leonard Goffiné answers the question of "why the word of God is compared to seed," writing, "Because as good fruits spring from good seed, so do good works from the word of God; and as it is impossible for any soil not sown to produce good fruits, so neither can men produce the fruits of the Spirit without the seed of the divine Word." [7]