Sentences with phrase «apostle paul»

Make sure, says the apostle Paul, that the first things people notice when they come in contact with you are virtues.

With the apostle Paul we can affirm: creation has been delivered into the power of destruction, it groans as in the pains of childbirth.»

Parallelism is also common in the letters of the apostle Paul.

This would be like the apostle Paul politically supporting Cesar to receive a pardon and be set free while he was a prisoner in Rome.

The apostle Paul reassured them.

Michael Gorman has produced a number of important books on the apostle Paul.

The apostle Paul wrote: «For it is the God who said, «Let light shine out of darkness,» who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ» (2 Cor.

The apostle Paul states that «We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time» (Romans 8:22).

The supratemporal reality of God's unchanging essence required Augustine to champion the apostle Paul in insisting that whatever our post-mortal fate may turn out to be has been predestined by God from all eternity.

Philastrius of Brescia (d. 397) regarded Hebrews as written by Paul but not canonical; on the other hand, African synods held in 393 and 397 accepted the canonicity of «thirteen letters of the apostle Paul» and «of the same, one to the Hebrews», thus maintaining a distinction without a difference.

The apostle Paul instructs us in 1 Corinthians 6:19 to honor our bodies because they house the Holy Spirit.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

It is not necessary for us to discuss these individually, since the blessed apostle Paul himself; following the order of his predecessor John, writes by name only to seven churches, in the following order: (1) to the Corinthians, (2) to the Ephesians, (3) to the Philippians, (4) to the Colossians, (5) to the Galatians (6) to the Thessalonians, and (7) to the Romans.

I was listening to the Catholic priest Richard Rohr speaking today about the apostle Paul, that people often accuse him of being a dualistic thinker, when in fact he was a dialectical thinker.

Then, since this gospel was already being corrupted, there was a reiteration of this gospel in the teaching of the apostle Paul.

Is that the apostle Paul in the boat with Jesus?

In that passage, the apostle Paul addresses the hotly - contested issue of eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and encourages Christians to refrain from judgment while also being careful not to make one another stumble.

We don't usually use the word «collective», but some Christians, the apostle Paul included, do think Christianity is a corporate thing, as, for example, in «Church».

He is wrong about what the bible says about being armed with the current weapon of the day, remember when the church officials came to arrest Jesus in the garden, the apostle Paul DREW HIS SWORD and cut a mans ear off, and what did Jesus say to him, he did n`t reprimand him he said, Stop there will be a time for the sword (GUN) but this is not it.So what can we learn from this, first the apostles carried weapons while in the company of Jesus, second, apparently Paul was very good with his sword, he obviously bested the guy whose ear he cut off.

The apostle Paul experienced the leading of the Holy Spirit in his daily life.

Even the apostle Paul, who shows very little interest in the earthly life of Jesus, says that he «was descended from David according to the flesh» (Rom 1:3).

But the apostle Paul had something else in mind, says our doctrine detective David Instone - Brewer

The apostle Paul told the Corinthians, «entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Then we can truthfully say, as the apostle Paul said, «Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ» (1 Corinthians 11:1,).

According to many contemporary scholars, the apostle Paul didn't object to «Judaizers» because they taught that salvation is achieved by works.

The apostle Paul gave us the phrase, and Martin Luther rediscovered it.

I assume you are aware of what the apostle Paul said about his desire to know Christ more and share in his sufferings.

Yes, the apostle Paul selected same - sex pairings as one among many possible examples of human sin, but he also assumed that slavery was acceptable and then did nothing to protect slaves from sexual use by their masters, a common practice at the time.

When the apostle Paul envisioned the bodies that would be given to humanity at the end of time, he imagined that they would be androgynous, «not male and female.»

---- The apostle Paul would disagree with you.

The essay «Breaking Away» attempted to make some more general comparisons, while «On Trusting an Unpredictable God» explored some of the theological implications of the apostle Paul's wrestling with the identity of the communities he had founded.

The apostle Paul spoke to the issue of disparity in 2 Corinthians, when he urged the wealthier Corinthian church to make a relief offering to the Christians in Jerusalem, who were in dire economic circumstances.

The apostle Paul compared the church to a human body: «If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it» (1 Cor.

Every minister is unpaid and supports him / herself from their own work, like the apostle Paul did mostly, as a tent maker.

1 Timothy 4:1 - 3: The apostle Paul fortells a time after the death of the Apostles that some would «fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons, by the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, marked in their conscience as with a branding iron, FORBIDDING TO MARRY, commanding to abstain from foods which God created... etc..

the apostle Paul put it more eloquently in his letter to the church in Rome when he said, «For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to hi m through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!»

The apostle Paul, in particular, laid out bare bones the sicknesses in the Body.

The apostle Paul was trying to express this when he asked Philippian Christians to «join in imitating me.»

Most of us agree that sex outside of marriage is wrong, yet we still have sensual urges within us, so the easiest solution is to follow the apostle Paul's admission that «If we can not control ourselves and are burning with passion, we should get married.»

The apostle Paul was a big, big fan of celibacy.

It is fascinating that the ministry of the apostle Paul would be seen as turning «the world upside down.»

That's what the apostle Paul told slaves in the ancient world: «Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters» (Colossians 3:23).

The Evolution of Adam not only answers just about every question I had after Enns» Biologos lecture, but also includes a lengthy and thoughtful treatment of the apostle Paul's Adam, again seeking to understand Paul's intent within his unique context and culture.

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

He refers to 1 Corinthians 6, a passage in which the apostle Paul admonishes couples in the Corinthian church not to deny intimacy to one another, but which says nothing about women maintaining a certain level of beauty in order to please their husbands.

The man was likely referring to 1 Timothy 2:12, in which the apostle Paul states «I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet,» or possibly to 1 Corinthians 14:34, in which he says, «women should remain silent in the churches.

As the apostle Paul said when you live as Christ you are one with God.

This is not the sentiment the apostle Paul shared.

«Such an approach seems foreign to the unconditional commitment that is demanded of authentic believers,» he writes, «a commitment that is described by the apostle Paul as one that involves becoming a living sacrifice.

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.