Psalm 65:1, "To You praise is due, O God, in Zion; To You a vow is performed." (NICOT Psalms). The opening lines in this psalm begins with "To You". The LXX (Septuagint or Greek OT) translated "praise is due" as "praise is fitting or proper." Why is it fitting to praise God? Firstly, praise is fitting because God is the hearing-prayer-One. Vs.2 says, "O You who hear pr...

Acts 2:22-24 says, "Men of Israel, listen to these words:Jesus the Nazarene,a manattested to you by God withmiracles andwonders andsigns which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know23thisMan, delivered over by thepredetermined plan and foreknowledge of God,you nailed to a cross by the hands ofgodless men and putHimto death.24ButGod raised Him ...

Psalm 119:73 - "Your hands made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments."...

Phil.1:6 says, "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." The context of this verse is Paul's thanksgiving. Paul thanked God for the Philippians. Paul thanked God for their fellowship with him in the work of the gospel. Paul's third point of thanksgiving is found in vs.6. Let us examine this ...

"I do not not believe in evolution." Your first reaction to this sentence will be to correct it by removing one "not". You will assert that this is not correct English. And you will be right. However, if this statement was written in Greek, it would be correct because it would be regarded as an emphatic declaration. The Greek New Testament has many examples of this "not no...

Titus 2:11-14 says, "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, 13looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, 14who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed...

John 15:16 - "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Farther in My name He may give to you."...

Psalm 39:4 - "LORD, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am.”...

Matthew 1:23 - "They shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, 'God with us'."...

The apostle Paul described the Christians in Rome as "beloved of God" (Rom.1:7). He described the Thessalonian Christians as "beloved by God" (1Thess.1:4) and as "beloved by the Lord" (2Thess.2:13). In all three instances it is proper to say that Christians are God's beloved people. In Rom.1:7 "beloved" is a verbal adjective with a passive sense. Firstly, the adjective sa...