Someone online is asking this question on another popular Question & Answer website. I would like to try to answer it for him or her.
In this passage, there are different degrees of quantity in the fruit. What does this difference mean? Depth of understanding of the Word of God or depth of...
Matthew 5:32 says “everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality makes her commit adultery.”
I've heard it said that Matthew 22:21, Mark 12:17 and Luke 20:25 are also referring to the tithe. Is this true?
Matthew 12:31-32 As the Holy Trinity is our God in three persons, why is there a differentiation in punishment between acts against Jesus (Son of man) and...
If not why did Jesus tell the Rich Young Ruler the following: "If you want to enter into life (eternal life) keep the commandments"? BTW, the context has to...
By your words you will be aquitted and by your words you shall be condemned.
How is Matthew 16: 24-26 applicable to Judas Iscariot, who was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ?
13 And if the house is j worthy, let i your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let i your peace return to you.
Jesus said, “You have heard the law that says, ‘A man can divorce his wife by merely giving her a written notice of divorce.’ But I say that a man who...
Does this mean we have to choose one, or that we cannot love both God and money? This is is a question I have had for a long time.
What is it about the righteousness of the Pharisees and teachers of the law that Jesus referring to here? Is it different from the righteousness of a true...
Also, Matthew 1:24 and “They also offered a sacrifice as required by the Lord’s Teachings: ‘a pair of mourning doves or two young pigeons’” (Luke 2:24).
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice...
Often we read about God's laws and Mosaic Laws and I read in much of Paul's letters that we are not under the law, (Rom 6:15, Gal. 5:18), then we read Jesus'...
42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their...
Matthew 5:34-37 New International Version 34 But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 or by the earth, for...
There is someone in the party that kept quiet though the host asked something. Why doesn't he/she said anything? What does that person signify?
In Matthew 13:12 he said this: "For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has...
It is emphasized that Christian faith is based on absolute ethics, not situational ethics. Matthews 12:1-4 seems to promote a form of situational ethics.
Since we cannot make it to Heaven by our good works, why are good works mentioned here?
(for example, on this page https://ebible.com/questions/5676-does-the-pastor-of-the-church-receive-all-the-tithes, Matthew 23:23 was explained as being...
Matthew 5:3-12 3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5Blessed are...
Matthew 10:32-33 32"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33But whoever disowns me before others, I will...
52 He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his...
PROBLEM: Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matt. 5:17). Yet Jesus’...
Matthew says that heaven was “prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Mt 25:34). But here in John 14:2, Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for...
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his...