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 their …
Marriage Gems
Bible Gem 1168 – Shock! Horror! There’s No Marriage in Heaven (Luke 20:27-39)
Then Jesus was approached by some Sadducees—religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. They posed this question: “Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man dies, leaving a wife but no children, his brother should marry the widow and …
Bible Gem 1167 – That Curly Question is not so Curly but rather Surly (Luke 20:27-39)
Some Sadducees came up. This is the Jewish party that denies any possibility of resurrection. They asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote us that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to take the widow to wife and get …
Bible Gem 749 – Joseph and Mary – Married or still Engaged? (Luke 1:5 / Matt 1:24-25)
He took with him Mary, his fiancée, who was now obviously pregnant. Luke 1:5 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife. But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son …
Bible Gem 744 – The Mary ~ Elizabeth Link: Being in the Know (Luke 1:39-55)
A few days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Judea, to the town where Zechariah lived. She entered the house and greeted Elizabeth. At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Elizabeth …
Bible Gem 742 – Jewish Betrothal (Luke 1:27)
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. Gabriel appeared to her and said, …
Bible Gem 553 – Don’t Be Unequally Yoked (2 Cor 6:14-16)
Don’t team up2 with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner3 with wickedness? How can light live with4 darkness? What harmony5 can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner6 with an unbeliever? And what union7 …
Bible Gem 406 – God or demons? (1 Cor 10:15-22)
You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am saying is true. When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ? …
Bible Gem 377 – The Final Section on Marriage Advice (1 Cor 7:25-40)
This whole section hangs together and constitutes a sense unit but we will look at it in three parts. Those parts are as follows: Now regarding your question about the young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the …
Bible Gem 376 – The meaning and significance of επισπασθω [epispastho] (1 Cor 7:18)
επισπασθω [epispastho] from the root verb ἐπισπάομαι [epispaomai] in 1 Cor 7:18 can be translated a number of different ways: Let him not seek to remove the evidence of circumcision. Let him not become uncircumcised. Let him make no change. Don’t try to change it. …