Study Desk

So take a good look at God's kindness and his severity: on the one hand, severity toward those who fell off; but, on the other hand, God's kindness toward you — provided you maintain yourself in that kindness! Otherwise, you too will be cut off!

For, brothers, I want you to understand this truth which God formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won't imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree, has come upon Isra'el, until the Gentile world enters in its fullness;

so also Isra'el has been disobedient now, so that by your showing them the same mercy that God has shown you, they too may now receive God's mercy.

In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.

so there are many of us, and in union with the Messiah we comprise one body, with each of us belonging to the others.

Besides all this, you know at what point of history we stand; so it is high time for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; for the final deliverance is nearer than when we first came to trust.

The night is almost over, the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and arm ourselves with the weapons of light.

He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God.

for if we live, we live in relation to the Lord; and if we die, we die in relation to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord —

indeed, it was for this very reason that the Messiah died and came back to life, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

So then, every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

So then, let us pursue the things that make for shalom and mutual upbuilding.

So we who are strong have a duty to bear the weaknesses of those who are not strong, rather than please ourselves.

For everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that with the encouragement of the Tanakh we might patiently hold on to our hope.

so that with one accord and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

So welcome each other, just as the Messiah has welcomed you into God's glory.

May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.

to be a servant of the Messiah Yeshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly duty of presenting the Good News of God, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh.

through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah.

I have always made it my ambition to proclaim the Good News where the Messiah was not yet known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation,