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Jul 19, 2013 · Romans 13:8: “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”. A. We owe the debt of love to all people. Certainly “one another” includes those who are believers, but this command extends to all people. “His neighbor” (13:8) is literally, “the other,” which includes any ...
Mar 9, 2022 · We should owe no man anything except to love one another because this is what God has chosen to do for us. He chose to not give us judgment and punish us for our sins. Instead, He chose to love us by sacrificing His Son, Jesus, on the cross to pay for our sins. Because of this sacrifice, we are forever indebted to God, and we repay that debt by ...
Some of these are certainly required by God and are good to do, but forgiveness, the payment of our debt incurred through our personal sins, is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8). It comes by God's mercy through the blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7). We absolutely cannot pay it ourselves and still have hope of eternal life.
Jul 27, 2018 · Despite all these differences, however, we hold some things in common. Across cultures and across history, we share the sense that something is wrong with us, that we just do not measure up in terms of our ethics. We have a sense of imperfection that is so pervasive that it comes across in popular sayings that reflect our condition. “To err ...
Jan 19, 2018 · In Luke’s version of the prayer, Jesus says, “and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us” (Luke 11:4). In this case, the Greek word used for “sins” is hamartia, which in general means “sins” or “guilt.”. But since it’s paired with opheilonti (“indebted to us”) it’s still clear that ...
Nov 15, 2015 · However, as the opening passage above indicates, as Christians, we are told we are debtors. Why are we indebted? We are debtors to God because He paid for us a debt we were unable to pay ourselves. God paid the debt for our sins by sacrificing His own Son: “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
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Apr 17, 2020 · We talked a couple of devotions ago how God breaths life into us — but it is temporary. “Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person” (Gen. 2: 7 NLT). “and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God ...
