“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 NASB New – Yeshua says, in the Greek text, “I am giving you a new commandment.” But…
I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. John 13:34 NASB New – But this isn’t new at all, is it? Leviticus 19:18—“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Yeshua even cites this passage as the equivalent of loving God. So, how can…
Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. Philippians 4:11 NASB From want – Whenever I go to the Apple store for a training session, I always encounter a line of people standing outside waiting for the store to open (now you know that I…
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV New – What are you? Not, “Who are you?” Paul doesn’t answer that question here. He answers the question, “What are you?” You are a new…
in speaking of the new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Hebrews 8:13 ESV New – There is probably no verse more loudly proclaimed by those that assert the pre-eminence of the dispensation of grace than this one. George Guthrie’s analysis…
Only that shall happen which has happened, only that occur which has occurred; there is nothing new beneath the sun! Ecclesiastes 1:9 JPS Nothing new – “Same old, same old,” we say. Or “What goes around comes around.” Life just repeats itself. But this often leads to cyclical amnesia. Because we are so familiar with…
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34 NASB New – How important it is to remember that Yeshua didn’t speak these words in Greek! In Hebrew, the word he used is hadash, the same word used…
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. Revelation 21:1 NASB Passed – Things aren’t always what they seem. If we’ve learned anything from the last decade of New Testament scholarship, we’ve learned that the previous…
Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourself a new heart and a new spirit for why will you die, O house of Israel. Ezekiel 18:31 (translation – R. North TDOT) New – It’s a new year, at least according to the astrological calendar of the heavenly…
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 Plans – The word “plans” is from the Hebrew root hashav. In this case it is the noun mahashavah. The verb form “make plans, reckon, account…
