Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Exodus 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down yourself...
And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the fraudulent.
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...
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
