Knowing this first (touto prwton ginwskonte). Present active participle of ginwskw. See Jude 1:20 for this identical phrase. Nominative absolute he...
Overview - 1?Peter 3 1?He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; 8?exhorting all men to unity and love; 14?and to suffer persecution. ...
Wickedness (kakia). Only here in Luke's writings, though old word and in LXX (cf. 1 Peter 2:1 1 Peter 2:16 ). If perhaps (ei ara). Si forte. This i...
And behold, I come quickly (kai idou ercomai tacu). Christ is the speaker, either through this angel or more probably directly from Christ without in...
Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeProverbs 15:28??(King James Version)The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth ...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 7 1?He treats of marriage; 4?shewing it to be a remedy against fornication, 10?and that the bond thereof ought not lightly t...
Overview - 1?Peter 5 1?He exhorts the elders to feed their flocks; 5?the younger to obey; 8?and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith...
Overview - Romans 9 1?Paul is sorry for the Jews. 7?All of Abraham not of the promise. 18?God's sovereignty. 25?The calling of the Gentiles and rejec...
Looking for (prosdokwnta). Present active participle of prosdokaw ( Matthew 11:3 ) agreeing in case (accusative plural) with uma. Earnestly desiring ...
Overview - Romans 6 1?We may not live in sin; 2?for we are dead unto it; 3?as appears by our baptism. 12?Let not sin reign any more; 18?because we h...
Overview - Galatians 2 1?He shows when he went up again to Jerusalem, and for what purpose; 3?and that Titus was not circumcised; 11?and that he resi...
Overview - Hebrews 2 1?We ought to be obedient to Christ Jesus; 5?and that because he vouchsafed to take our nature upon him; 14?as it was necessary....
Overview - Ephesians 4 1?He exhorts to unity; 7?and declares that God therefore gives divers gifts unto men; 11?that his church might be edified, 16?...
Overview - Isaiah 56 1?The prophet exhorts to sanctification. 3?He promises it shall be general, without respect of persons. 9?He inveighs against b...
In covetousness (en pleonexiai). As did Balaam (verse 2?Peter 15 ). These licentious Gnostics made money out of their dupes. A merely intellectual G...
Overview - Matthew 5 1?Christ's sermon on the mount. 3?Who are blessed; 13?the salt of the earth; 14?the light of the world. 17?He came to fulfil the...
Overview - 2?Peter 1 1?Confirming them in hope of the increase of God's graces, 5?he exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling su...
Overview - Hebrews 12 1?An exhortation to constant faith, patience, and godliness. 22?A commendation of the new testament above the old. Treasury of S...
It may be (ei tucoi). Condition of fourth class (ei and aorist optative of tugcanw), if it should happen. Common enough idiom. Cf. tucon in Acts 16:...
Overview - Ephesians 2 1?By comparing what we were by nature, with what we are by grace, 10?he declares that we are made for good works: and being bro...