But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, 2 Timothy 2:16 NASB Worldly – Sometimes translations simply remove us from the context of the author. When the NASB (or ESV) chose to translate bebelous as “worldly” (there is no “and” in the Greek text) or “irreverent,” the English obscures Paul’s…
How long, O Lord, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save. Habakkuk 1:2 ANSB Violence! – You know the aphorism. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It seems that two thousand seven hundred years haven’t made much…
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” Matthew 7:23 NASB Never knew you – Rosh Hashanah is gone. Yom Kippur is over. The Feasts will wait for another year. We have studied many words, examined many concepts, learned some theological truths. There is a…
Every one who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4 NASB Lawlessness – The Greek word for “lawlessness” is anomos. We have English derivatives from this Greek word like antinomian. But it isn’t the Greek background of the word that matters most when we want to understand what John is…
Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 NASB Lawlessness – Who is the man of lawlessness? You don’t have to look to much further in the text to realize that…
