BIBLE VERSES
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Looking at a woman to lust after her means adultery and sin? Matt. 5:28
It is not possible to commit adultery unless you’re married If a man looks at a woman with the precise aim “to lust after her”, it is a sin according…
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Does the Bible teach that a raped woman must marry her rapist? Deut. 22:28-29
God makes laws to secure the woman’s rights and protection The Hebrew laws in Deuteronomy no longer apply today, but back in the old days they did apply for the…
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God works all things after the counsel of his own will? Eph. 1:11
God’s will is that man should use his free will and seek him (see Acts 17) God has a sovereign freedom to accomplish whatever he chooses, like guaranteeing the proper…
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked? Jer. 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jer. 17:9 KJV The book of Jeremiah, just like Job, Isaiah, Ezekiel, etc, contains portions of…
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Put on the whole armor of God, because we do not fight against flesh and blood
Take unto you the whole armour of God! – Eph. 6:13 Paul provides some good advice for us which would be beneficial for us to remember in order to be…
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Eating blood is a sin, but a blood transfusion is not – Jehovah’s Witnesses
Eating/drinking blood is one thing, and injecting blood something else I have RH0 Negative blood, which is rather rare – with only about 6-7% of the European population (see possible…
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If we sin, we have an advocate in Jesus so we are constantly forgiven? – 1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous (1…
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A new heart which will cause us to perfectly walk in God’s statutes? Ezekiel 36:26-27
Ez. 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,…
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Abraham did not necessarily sin by claiming his wife Sarah was his sister
Sarah – Abraham’s niece, sister and wife The Hebrew word translated “sister” in for instance Gen. 12:13 is ‘achowth (Strong’s 269), which based on Blue Letter Bible could mean sister (same parents), half-sister…
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Zipporah: “A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision” – Ex. 4:24-26
“Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me” (Ex.…
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Paul said that he counted old “things” loss for Christ, and rubbish or dung – Phil. 3:7-8
What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ – for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as RUBBISH / Phil. 3:7-8,…
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Who is he that saith, and IT COMETH TO PASS, when the Lord commandeth it not? Lam. 3:37
Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That WOE and well-being…
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Common proof texts: PROVERBS 16:9, 16:33, 19:21, 20:24 – about God directing our steps
Proverbs contain many poetical expressions that mirror the truth, and that’s why we must be careful to not lift out verses out of Proverbs (or Psalms), and make doctrines out…
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It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? – Jer. 10:23
Jer. 10:23 O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to DIRECT HIS STEPS Some people seem to believe, that…
