These women faced a challenging dilemma because in Roman culture a wife was expected to adopt the religion Jesus living in a predominant pagan society or the 1st century wives of unbelieving husbands in the Roman

5  If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6  if you do not When our Confession was written 5 centuries ago, the Holy Catholic Church was a hot mess. All sorts of groups had splintered away from the corrupted Roman Church and formed their own 'churches

God's re-creating power sets you free from bone crushing sin. bibleversestogo.com Psalm 51 For the director and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. 5   Summary Commentator Mark Futato writes , Psalm 51 grips our hearts as it exposes our need that results Our need is twofold: We need reconciliation (51:1–9), and we need transformation (51:10–19). His prayer of confession here in Psalm 51 serves as one of the foundational supporting texts for this

Faithlife.com Isaiah 55:1–13 (NIV) 55 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who promised to David. 4  See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples. 5  Dig Deeper   It's verse 11 that brings us to Isaiah 55 today, in which the LORD indicates that His word

Photo: Klemen Vrankar via Unsplash Genesis 15:1–21 (NIV) SINCE WE LAST LEFT OFF: Roughly 5-10 years have him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5   In Romans 4:2 , Paul drives home that it was faith, not works, that declares one legally right before

in the sending of Jesus Christ 3 - The Preaching of the Gospel 4 - A Twofold Response to the Gospel 5 (Romans 9:19). Paul answers this vexing question in today's passage.

Isaiah 53:1-6 (NIV) Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5  Dig Deeper Clearly Isaiah 53 as a whole is all about the person and work of the Messiah, Jesus. Today: Ephesians 5

spiritual forces of the world. 4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman , born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time" (1 Peter 1:3-5) And so it is that our Savior, God's Son, needed to be "born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem Today: Romans 9

gospels— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the fourteen letters of Paul— to the Romans Certainly the first 'exiles' who got this letter lived in far flung Roman provinces, but you're an exile

Three times Pilate tried to reason with the chief priests, even stating that Herod, a second Roman official righteous judgment ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Matthew 5