For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
1 Peter 5 5Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
I felt very puzzled every time I read the Book of Ecclesiastes; it says: “I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do...
Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; … Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Sweet Publishing/FreeBibleimages.org/CC BY-SA 3.0 Jonah Sent to Nineveh, Flees to Tarshish (Jonah 1:1-3) 1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wicked...
