Category: BIBLE

HEBREWS 9: 27 – And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. – God decides that humans must die one day, so it’s a certainty that no one can escape, except for Enoch and Elijah (Genesis 5: 24, 2Kings 2: 11). Death happens to everyone else because of Adam eating the forbidden fruit […]

GENESIS 2: 9 – And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. – Everything that God created was good and beneficial to humankind (Ecclesiastes 3: […]

GENESIS 2: 16 – And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. – In the Garden, Adam had the freedom to eat whatever he wanted except for the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. – That meant Adam could freely eat the fruit from the tree […]

GENESIS 2: 17 – But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. – This is the first command that God instructed Adam not to do. He was free to eat all the fruits in Eden except for the fruit […]

GALATIANS 5: 26 – Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. – This is a command for Christians to follow. It’s not a suggestion (2Timothy 3: 16-17, James 1: 22). Christians have been called by God to make life on Earth better. Soldiers cannot be effective if their duties are simply suggested. As […]

LUKE 5: 38 – But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. – In this parable, Jesus lets us know that new and old cannot be mixed, because if we do, bad results will happen. – He used wine to make a comparison because it would cause different effect on wineskins, not because He was […]

ROMANS 14: 19 – Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. – God always wants humans to be at peace in their lives and towards others. He even wants Christians to be better in that aspect (Hebrews 12: 14). – Loving peace does not mean being a coward (Revelation […]

GENESIS 11: 7 – Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. – God is Trinity and from the first book in the Bible, He has let us know about Him (Genesis 1: 26). – One of the reasons that God confounded human language is because of their arrogance […]

MATTHEW 19: 21 – Jesus said unto him: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. – According to the standard that Jesus set forth here, nobody can be perfect (Romans 3: 12). The young man thought he was perfect, […]

GENESIS 11: 4 – And they said: Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. – The Bible lets us know that from the ancient times, humans like to be famous. – […]