GROW in Knowledge
We are Learners of Life, Love, Liberty and Light. The Word of God says that Jesus is Life, God is Love, The Spirit brings Liberty and His Light lives in us. " For it is the God who commanded light to 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. 4:6
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Patience and Self Control!
Let’s find out how we can live and operate in more patience and self control in our lives.
2 Pet. 3:9
2 Pet. 3:15a
Patience in Greek is makrothumia- to suffer long
2 Thess. 3:5
A different word for patience in the Greek is hupomonē - cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, (waiting).
2 Cor. 6:4-6
Phil. 4:13
James 5:7-8
Establish in Greek is stērizō- to set fast, to turn resolutely in a certain direction, to confirm: stedfastly set, strengthen.
Luke 8:15
Col. 1:9-11
James 5:7
Rom. 15:4
1 Thess. 1:3
Rom. 12:12
Gal. 6:7-9
Heb. 6:12
Heb. 10:36
Rom. 8:24-25
2 Tim. 2:24
Rom. 15:5
1 Thess. 5:14b
Eph. 4:2
James 1:2-4
Ps. 138:8
Heb. 12:2
Endured in Greek is hupomenō one of the definitions is he remained in patient perseverence.
Prov. 16:32
2 Pet. 1:5-6;8
Luke 21:19
Possess in Hebrew is ktaomai - to get, that is, acquire (own): - obtain.
Prov. 25:28
1 Pet. 1:13
One of the root words in Greek for gird is zōnnumi - to bind about (especially with a belt):
Heb. 12:1
1 Cor. 9:24-25
Temporate in Greek is egkrateuomai- to exercise self restraint (in diet and chastity): - (chastity means sexual purity.)
1 Thess. 4:3-5
Stay away in Greek is the word abstain - apechomai- to hold oneself off, that is, refrain:
1 Cor. 9:26-27
Subjection in Greek is doulagōgeō -to enslave (subdue)
Subdue means to rule.
Gen. 4:7
Acts 20:28
Heed in Greek is prosechō- to hold the mind, pay attention to, be cautious about, apply oneself to, adhere to: - attend, beware, be given to, have regard.
Ps. 32:8-9
Rom. 8:3
Rom. 6:12;16-22
Gal. 5:7-9
Prov. 16:17
Preserve in Hebrew is shâmar -to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, - beware, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, reserve, save (self), wait (for), watch (-man).
Rom. 8:6
Rom. 8:5-6;8
Prov. 5:22-23
Heb. 12:11
2 Tim. 3:1-3
The Greek word for church is ekklēsia - called out.
1 Pet. 2:9-11
1 Pet. 3:10
Prov. 13:3
Prov. 10:19
Ps. 141:3
James 1:26
James 3:2-5a
Luke 6:43-45