Bible Tips 30-38

Bible Tips 30-38

30. The definite article is sometimes injuriously omitted.
Matthew 1:23 the virgin; 4:5 the pinnacle; 4:21 the ship; 5:1 the mountain; 5:15 the bushel, the candlestick; 7:17 the corrupt; 7:24 the rock; 8:23 the ship; 8:32 the steep; 9:1 the ship; 10:12 the house; 12:35 the good, the evil; 12:43 the man; 18:17 the heathen, the publican; 23:24 the gnat, the camel; 24:32 the parable; 25:32 the shepherd; 26:51 the servant; 28:16 the mountain; etc.

31. The definite article is sometimes injuriously inserted.
Matthew 1:20; 2:13; 3:3 a voice; 8:8 a word; 15:9 commandments; 22:30 angels.

Mark 1:45 a city; 2:1 a house; 7:7 commandments; 12:25 angels Luke 1:78 dayspring; 2:9; 2:12 a babe; 7:3 elders; 22:17 a cup; 22:37 transgressors.

Acts 5:19; 7:35; 7:38 lively; 8:26; 9:5 pricks; 12:17,23 an angel

32. The coming of God (or Christ) frequently means a manifestation to assist, deliver, reward, or punish.
Psalm 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Hosea 6:3
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Romans 9:9
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

Ephesians 2:17
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

Hebrews 10:37
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

James 5:8
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

33. Things are spoken of as given, done, or possessed, which are only promised and proposed.
Genesis 15:18; 27:37
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates....And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

Joshua 1:3; 23:9
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses....For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Ephesians 1:3,4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

2 Timothy 1:9
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

34. That which is difficult is frequently spoken of as impossible.
Matthew 17:20; 19:24 (cf. Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25)
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you....And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Luke 17:1
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost...

35. A pronoun frequently refers to a more remote antecedant.
Psalm 99:8
Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Matthew 11:1; 12:9
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities....And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue.

Luke 5:17,26
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them...And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

John 6:50
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

Acts 4:11; 7:19; 10:6; 15:11
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner....The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live....He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do....But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Hebrews 12:17
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

36. Persons and things are reckoned children of that which they imitate, or to which they are attached.
1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

1 Kings 20:35
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

2 Kings 6:32
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

Psalm 89:22
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Ezekiel 16:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Mark 3:17
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.

Luke 10:6
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Acts 4:36; 13:10
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus.

2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

1 Peter 3:6
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

(And in such expressions as children of God, Abraham, Jacob, Israel; of faith, wisdom, wrath, disobedience, Satan, hell; the devil, the promise, the resurrection, the day, the light, the bridechamber, the bondswoman, the kingdom, etc.)

37. The verb "to hate" is frequently used for "love less."
Genesis 29:31
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated...

Malachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Romans 9:13
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

38. A people is frequently called by the name of its founder.
Genesis 9:25,27; 49:7
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren....God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant....; Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:9
For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Psalm 14:7; 24:6; 83:8
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad....This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob....Assur [Assyria] also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.

Amos 7:9
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuary of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one, and hath many members, sand all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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