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Romans
Apr 26, 2009 18:42:22 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 26, 2009 18:42:22 GMT -5
To the Romans 13: 11-14: The Approach of the Day of Christ
11 And know this season, that the hour is now on you to get up from sleep, for now the salvation that we believed is nearer. 12 Night is growing, but day is near. So let us throw off the deeds of darkness, [and] be dressed with the weapons of light. 13 Let us walk modestly in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual impurity and debauchery, not in strife and envy, 14 but be clothed with the lord Yeshua the Messiah and make no provision for the flesh to do its lusts.
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Romans
Apr 30, 2009 14:35:14 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 30, 2009 14:35:14 GMT -5
To the Romans 14: 1-12: Do Not Judge Your Brother
1 And accept the one who is weak in faith, not arguing in disputes. 2 One person believes he can eat everything, but the weak person eats vegetables. 3 The one who eats should not despise the one who doesn’t eat, and the one who doesn’t eat shouldn’t judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? He stands or falls before his own master*: and he will stand, for the lord* is powerful to make him stand. 5 [For] he doesn’t judge day by day, but he judges every day: let each one be convinced in his own mind. 6 He who honors a day honors the lord: and he who eats eats to the lord, for he gives thanks to God: and he who doesn’t eat doesn’t eat to the lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself. 8 For if we live, we live for the lord, and if we die, we die for the lord. Therefore if we live or if we die, we are the lord’s. 9 For it was for this reason that the Messiah died and lived, so that he might rule over both the dead and the living. 10 And who are you to condemn your brother? And who are you to despise your brother? For all will be stood before God's judgment seat, 11 for it is written,
As I live, says the lord, every knee will bow to me and every tongue will confess to God.
12 So [therefore] each of us will give a word about himself [to God].
*These are the same word in Greek
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Romans
May 4, 2009 13:15:41 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 4, 2009 13:15:41 GMT -5
To the Romans 14: 13-23: Do Not Make Your Brother Stumble
13 Therefore never condemn each other: but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling block or something that causes sin before your brother. 14 Know and be persuaded in the lord Yeshua that nothing is common in itself, unless it is common to the one who thinks it is, than it is common to him. 15 For if your brother is injured through food, you are no longer walking in love: don’t destroy through your food that person for whom the Messiah died. 16 Therefore let none of you blaspheme what is good. 17 For God’s kingdom is not food and drink but rather righteousness and peace and joy in the holy spirit: 18 For in everyone serving the Messiah is pleasing to God and respected by men. 19 So therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things of edification for each other. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed everything is clean, but it is evil to a man who eats it as a stumbling block. 21 It is good not to eat meat nor to drink wine nor to make your brother stumble at anything. 22 You have faith within yourself, have it before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he discerns: 23 and he who doubts if he eats is condemned, for it is not from trust: and all that is not from trust is sin.
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Romans
May 6, 2009 13:12:47 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 6, 2009 13:12:47 GMT -5
To the Romans 15: 1-6: Please Your Fellow Men, Not Yourself
1 And we who are powerful must bear with the weaknesses of those who are not powerful and not please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for good in order to build him up: 3 for even the Messiah did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me. 4 For whatever was written before, was written for our teaching, so that through patience and through the encouragement of the writings we might have hope. 5 And may God give you patience and encouragement so that you may think the same towards each other as the Messiah Yeshua, 6 so that together, with one mouth, you might praise the God and father of our lord Yeshua the Messiah.
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Romans
May 9, 2009 16:51:30 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 9, 2009 16:51:30 GMT -5
To the Romans 15: 7-13: The Gospel for Jews and Gentiles Alike
7 Therefore bear with one another, just as the Messiah also bore with you for God’s glory. 8 For I say that the Messiah became a servant under circumcision on behalf of God’s truth, in order to confirm the promises of the fathers, 9 and that the nations might praise God for his mercy, as it is written,
Therefore I will confess you among the nations and sing praise to your name
10 and again it says,
Rejoice, nations, with his people.
11 And again,
Praise, all you nations, the lord and let all the peoples praise him.
12 And again Isaiah says,
There will be a root from Jesse and he will refuse to rule the nations*, and the gentiles* will hope in him.
13 And may God fill you with hope of all joy and peace so that you may trus, in order that you may abound in the hope of the power of the holy spirit.
*These are the same word in Greek
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Romans
May 12, 2009 13:24:10 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 12, 2009 13:24:10 GMT -5
To the Romans 15: 14-21: Paul’s Missionary Commission
14 And I am convinced, my brothers, and I am concerning you for you are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, being able to instruct each other. 15 And I wrote somewhat boldly to you a while ago to remind you, through the grace given to me by God, 16 so that I might be a servant of Messiah Yeshua for the nations, being a priest of the good news of God, so that the offering of the nations might be pleasing, being made holy by the holy spirit. 17 Therefore I have a reason for boasting in Messiah Yeshua before God: 18 for I don’t dare to say anything that the Messiah didn’t prepare through me for the gentiles to hear, in word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the spirit [of God]: just as I fulfilled the good news of the Messiah from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, 20 and thus it is my ambition to preach the gospel where the Messiah is not named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, 21 but just as it is written,
Those to whom it hasn't been announced about him will see, and those who didn't hear will understand.
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Romans
May 16, 2009 14:22:34 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 16, 2009 14:22:34 GMT -5
To the Romans 15: 22-33: Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome
22 And therefore I was prevented by many things from coming to you: 23 but now, since I no longer have a place in these regions, I have a longing to come to you after (so) many years, 24 before I go to Spain: for I hope to see you as I travel through and be sent there by you if I may be fulfilled by you first, for a little while. 25 And now I will go to Jerusalem serving the holy ones. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia praised any sharing that might be done for the poor among the holy ones who are in Jerusalem. 27 For they praised and they owe them: for if they shared with the gentiles in spiritual matters, the gentiles should also serve them in physical matters. 28 Therefore when I finish this and have delivered this product to them, I will depart from you for Spain: 29 and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Messiah.
30 And I urge you[, brothers,] through our lord Yeshua the Messiah and through the love of the spirit, to join with me in your prayers for me before God, 31 that I might be delivered from those in Judea who are disobedient and that my service for Jerusalem might be pleasing to the holy ones, 32 so that through God's will I may come to you and refresh you. 33 And may the God of peace be with all of you, amen.
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Romans
May 28, 2009 10:39:56 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 28, 2009 10:39:56 GMT -5
To the Romans 16: 1-23: Personal Greetings
1 And I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is [also] a deacon of the church in Cenchrea, 2 so that you may welcome her in the lord worthily of the holy ones and may stand with her in your needed work: for she has been a helper to many and to me myself.
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Messiah Yeshua, 4 who risked their own neck for my life, whom I alone don’t thank but also all the churches of the gentiles, 5 and (greet) the church in their house. Greet Epainetos my beloved, who is the first-portion of the Messiah in Asia. 6 Greet Maria, who worked very hard for you. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and fellow prisoners, who are well known among the emissaries, who were also before me in the Messiah. 8 Greet our fellow worker Urbanus in the Messiah and my beloved Stachys. 10 Greet Apelles, the one honored by the Messiah. Greet those in Aristobulus’ household. 11 Greet Tryphaina and Tryphosa, workers in the lord. Greet beloved Persis, who worked very hard for the lord. 13 Greet Rufus, the lord’s chosen, and his mother, who is (also) mine. 14 Greet Asynkritus, Phelons, Hermes, Patroba, Hermas, and the brothers with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nerea and his sister, and Olympa and the holy ones with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Messiah greet you.
17 And I urge you, brothers, to watch out for divisions and stumbling blocks around the teaching which you were taught to do, and turn away from them: 18 for they do not serve our lord Messiah but rather their own belly, and through smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the evil. 19 For your report is known to everyone: therefore I rejoice, and I want you to be wise about good and innocent about evil. 20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our lord Yeshua be with you.
21 My fellow worker Timothy greets you, along with my relatives Luke and Jason and Sosipater. 22 I, Tertius, who is writing this letter, greet you in the lord. 23 My guest Gaius and all the church greet you. Erastus the steward of the city and Kuartos the brother greet you.
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Romans
May 28, 2009 10:40:23 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 28, 2009 10:40:23 GMT -5
To the Romans 16: 25-27: Doxology
[25 And to the one who can make you stand according to my good news and the message of Yeshua the Messiah, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept silent in ancient times, 26 and now has been shown forth through the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God for a report of trust so that all the nations may know, 27 to the only wise God, through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom be glory forever, amen.]
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