Overview - Mark 3 1?Christ heals the withered hand, 10?and many other infirmities; 11?rebukes the unclean spirit; 13?chooses his twelve apostles; 22?c...
Dispensation(Gr. oikonomia, management, economy). The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispen...
Romans 8:30 Moreover, whom he did predestinate Not to sufferings, which are not expressed nor designed, but to grace and glory after mentioned. This p...
1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich Not they that are rich; for some rich men are good men; and do much good with their riches; and are as free f...
1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one That is, an human body; for of this the apostle speaks, and takes a simile, and forms a comparison from, sh...
1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called These words contain arguments, assuring the saints of their confirmation in grace, and of th...
Ezekiel 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city Had killed many of the prophets of the Lord that had been sent unto them, and had shed much in...
Acts 18:10 For I am with thee According to his promise, ( Matthew 28:20 ) not only to assist in the ministry of the word, to give light into it, and l...
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan Another son of Japheth; four sons of Javan are mentioned, which gave names to countries, and are as follow: Elisha...
Jeremiah 30:22 And ye shall be my people For many hundred years the people of the Jews have been called Loammi or, ye are not my people, ( Hosea 1:9 )...
Genesis 24:35 And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly With temporal blessings, after enumerated, which are of God, and are here ascribed to him, t...
Overview - Acts 16 1?Paul having circumcised Timothy, 7?and being called by the Spirit from one country to another, 14?converts Lydia, 16?and casts o...
Overview - Acts 16 1?Paul having circumcised Timothy, 7?and being called by the Spirit from one country to another, 14?converts Lydia, 16?and casts o...
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb The Lord Jesus Christ, so often spoken of in this book under this character, ( Revelation 5:6 Rev...
Persepolis, mentioned only in 2 Macc. 9:2, was the capital of Persia proper, and the occasional residence of the Persian court from the time of Dariu...
James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? &c.] As the people of God generally are; they are commonly a poor, and an afflicted people; at least there are ...
1. Now they were the grandchildren of Noah, in honor of whom names were imposed on the nations by those that first seized upon them. Japhet, the so...
Isaiah 64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, the other the lower cit...
Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid, [for] an handmaid.] It was usual to have many given them at this time, as Rebekah...
CALLING kol'-ing (klesis, from kaleo, I call): Is a New Testament expression. The word is used chiefly by Paul, though the idea and term are found al...