1Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. 2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realising it! 3Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt …
Bible Versions Gems
Bible Gem 2047 – Who Is In Focus Here? (Heb 2:5-18)
5 For He did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, saying, “WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU THINK OF HIM? OR A SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM? 7 YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN ANGELS; YOU …
Bible Gem 2043 – For This Reason . . . What Reason? (Hebrews 2:1-4)
1For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every violation and act of disobedience received a just punishment, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at first spoken through the Lord, …
Bible Gem 2041 – Crossing the Chapter Boundary Between Hebrews 1 & 2
Here is Chapter 2 of Hebrews laid out for you, verse by verse without divisions or section titles. Each time we cross the chapter boundaries of the Bible we need to look carefully for the connections. If you have followed the Bible Gems for long …
Bible Gem 2025 – The Opening Line of Hebrews – What a Perfect Beginning (Heb 1:1-4)
Oh my goodness, what a grand statement! But you know, if you read your Bible correctly, that there is way more to this statement than it seems at first glance. It is filled with meaty bits. It is a meaty bit, a meaty bite and …
Bible Gem 1961 – Investigating Paul’s First Section (Phil 3:1-16)
Don’t Trust the Righteousness that Comes From the Law; Trust The Kind Christ Gives In conclusion1, my friends, be joyful in your union with the Lord. I don’t mind repeating what I have written before, and you will be safer if I do so. Watch out …
Bible Gem 1930 – To What Extent Did Jesus Empty Himself? (Phil 2:7)
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; Phil 2:7 This particular verse is so interesting. We can approach it from a layman’s (lay person’s) point of view and look at what “Jesus emptied Himself” actually means? …
Bible Gem 1923 – Face to Face with a Majestic Passage (Phil 2:5-11)
Philippians 2:5-11 Having the Mind of Christ in You Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking …
Bible Gem 1037 – The Lost Son: a New Look at a very Familiar Story (Luke 15:11-32)
Unit Four: And He said, A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to the father, Father give me that part of the property falling to me. And he divided the living to them. And not many days after, gathering up …
Bible Gem 996 – The Verse which Introduces the Parable (Luke 12:15)
Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.” (Luke 12:15) (BBE) Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; …