Psalm 51:4: “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.” There is no guessing as to who or what this Psalm is addressing. We are told right in verse two that
Genesis 39:9, “[There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” We have here the story we all heard many times and learned about in Sunday School.
Psalms 25:11: “For thy name sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great.” We tend to use the word iniquity interchangeable with the word sin. I mean are not sin and iniquity both the same. Actually, there is a real difference between iniquity and sin. Most of us know that the
Genesis 4:5-7: But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect, and Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, “Why are thou wroth and why has thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well shall thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at
“Genesis 4:5-7: But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect, and Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, “Why are thou wroth and why has they countenance fallen? If thou doest well shall thou not be thou accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth
Psalm 119 is one of my favorite Psalms and its theme is love for the Word of God. It is an acrostic poem and has 176 verses. These verses are divided into 22 stanzas. One stanza for every letter of the Hebrew alphabet, for example: The first word of the first 8 verses start
WORD STUDY – TAKE, SEIZE I Samuel 4:3: “And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among us, it
WORD STUDY – AFRAID Job 9:28: “I am afraid of all my sorrow, I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.” Afraid – Hebrew: yagar – To fear for one’s own safety or wellbeing. First let me point out that this word for fear is not the fear used for “fearing the Lord.” That word
WORD STUDY – SIN (AVONI) I Kings 17:18: “And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?” Sin – Hebrew: Avoni – Sin, to make crooked We are familiar with the
WORD STUDY – SIN Job 1:22: “In all this Job sinned not, nor charge God foolishly.” Sin: Hebrew – chata: To stumble or fall short of the mark We tend to think that Job did not sin by not blaming God. Yet, when you look at the syntax in the Hebrew, it is clearly indicating
