This well known verse speaks to the inspiration, authority, and use of Scripture. Its context relates to Paul’s instructions to Timothy regarding false teachers. For Paul, the best way to avoid falsehood is to know the truth in the depths […]

This blessing comes towards the very end of Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. They had raised many concerns about the nature of Jesus’ second coming, and Paul answered their concerns by writing this letter. Therefore, it makes sense that […]

Psalm 133 is a song of ascent, sung by the people of Israel as they traveled together to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. Although brief, it offers several wonderful images of the benefits that come from offering worship to God. […]

Moses offered this reminder to the people as they prepared to enter the Promised Land. Just as God would promise Joshua that the battle belonged to the Lord (Joshua 1:6-9), the same assurance is given here. The Lord promised to […]

Paul offers this encouragement to Timothy on the basis of his upbringing in the faith. His mother and grandmother taught him the faith, and he himself was personally committed to it (verse 5), and so he had a long personal […]

Jesus famous assertion of the Golden Rule in the Sermon on the Mount is interesting for a number of reasons. First, whereas many ancient authors and sources phrased the Golden Rule negatively (do not do anything to others that you […]