Tag: sin
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Your Past and Your Present
9Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you…
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Paul and Judging Others
12What business is it of mine [Paul] to judge those outside the church? Are you [written to Corinthian church] not to judge those inside? 13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”–1 Corinthians 5 Paul had been judging the Corinthian church regarding a horrendous sexual matter that they had allowed within their…
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Stop Remaining the Baby
1Brothers and sisters, I [Paul] could not address you [the Corinthian church] as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. –1 Corinthians 3 Paul was giving a…
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Jesus and the One Sin
6As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him [Jesus], they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.” 7The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he…
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Jesus, the Light
44Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.–John 12 Some religious…
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Blindness and Sin
39Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”–John 9 Jesus saw himself as the standard by which one will be judged. Those who are blind are unaware of their sin problem or that their sin is a problem. Jesus opens their…
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A Blind Man and God’s Plan
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.–John 9 The disciples asked a question that…
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Jesus Is Enough
28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.” 30At this they…
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Jesus and a Bronze Snake
14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.–John 3 Jesus…
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Come Out of “Babylon”
4Then I [John] heard another voice from heaven say:“ ‘Come out of her [“Babylon the Great”], my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; 5for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.–Revelation 18 So Lot went out…