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Peace And Purity In The Churches |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 15:24 |
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 By: Phillip A. Ross All Christians need to seek the peace and purity of the church. This is no small task because sin has set peace and purity at odds with one another. Those who seek doctrinal unity or purity, those for whom truth is the primary category of faithfulness are often charged with disturbing the peace of the church because they meet with opposition when they teach or assert various unpopular doctrines. And those who seek peace, those for whom fellowship is the primary category of faithfulness are often charged with disturbing the purity of the church because they want to maintain fellowship and camaraderie at the expense of truth. The one trumps fellowship with truth and the other trumps truth with fellowship.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:41 |
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Written by User 1
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:41 |
 By: Phillip A. Ross "For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord" (1 Corinthians 4:4). This verse is hard to understand. Here is the context, "But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self, for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord" (1 Corinthians 4:3-4). Other translations of the Bible read "of myself" or "against myself." But there is no such Greek word in the text. The preposition has been added. There is an implied sense of the knowledge that Paul speaks of in the verse as being against or apart from himself. Nonetheless, the literal Greek reads, 'For I know nothing myself.'
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:26 |
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