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Matthew Henry taught that the prohibition against false witness concerns our own and our neighbor's good name. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" forbids: "1. Speaking falsely in any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising and designing to deceive our neighbour. 2. Speaking unjustly against our neighbour, to the prejudice of his ...
Matthew 5:43. "Sermon on the Mount". Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. Matthew 5:43 is the forty-third verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse is the opening of the final antithesis, that on the commandment to "Love thy neighbour as thyself".
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, both avoiding the man. A Samaritan happens upon him, and though Samaritans and Jews were ...
In addition, it is argued the word used in the King James Version of the Bible for "strange", can mean unlawful or corrupted (e.g. in Romans 7:3, Galatians 1:6), and that the apocryphal Second Book of Enoch condemns "sodomitic" sex (2 Enoch 10:3; 34:1), [98] thus indicating that homosexual relations was the prevalent physical sin of Sodom.
Leviticus 18 (the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus) deals with a number of sexual activities considered abominable, including incest and bestiality. The chapter also condemns Moloch worship. It is part of the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–26), [ 1] and its sexual prohibitions are largely paralleled by Leviticus 20, [ 2] except that ...
What happens when a mosque moves across the street from a church in the Bible Belt? How a church in the Bible Belt responds to a new neighbor Skip to main content
Blemmyes. Today part of. Sudan. Egypt. The Kingdom of Kush(/kʊʃ,kʌʃ/; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXXΧους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣEcōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁKūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valleyin what is now ...
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the ending of the parable, from the Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Friend at Night (also known as the Parable of the Friend at Midnight or of the Importunate Neighbour) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5–8. In it, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands ...