The annual cost of people running red lights in the United States is $7 billion. The joy referred to here is deeper than mere happiness; it is rooted in God and comes from Him. 4. Again I give my word to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is under obligation to keep the whole law. The Passion Translation is a registered trademark of Passion & Fire Ministries, Inc. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? The Greek word (agap) occurs 117 times in 106 verses in the Greek concordance of the NASB. If anyone remains joined to Me, and I to him, he will bear a lot of fruit. You who seek to get yourselves right with God by means of legalism have got yourself into a position in which you have rendered ineffective all that Christ did for you. The apostle Paul uses this word to depict God's incomprehensible kindness for people who are unsaved (see Romans 11:22;[20] Ephesians 2:7;[21] Titus 3:4[22]). The word kindness comes from the Greek word chrestotes (khray-stot-ace), which meant to show kindness or to be friendly to others and often depicted rulers, governors, or people who were kind, mild, and benevolent to their subjects. Old wine is called chrestos ( G5543) , mellow. The behavior of the self-life is obvious: Sexual immorality, lustful thoughts, pornography. According to Strong's Greek Lexicon, the word [G26] (Transliteration: agap) means love, i.e. As Galatians 5:16 says, So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. The Cross And Separation From The World (1 Peter 4:1-6), 7. Read Galatians (NIRV) Read Galatians 5:22 (NIRV) in Parallel. 26 Let us not . 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. We are encouraged to: Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance (James 1:1-2). Joy in this passage is . The Greek (chara) occurs 59 times in 57 verses in the Greek concordance of the NASB. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties, one who kept his plighted faith, worthy of trust, in the NT one who trusts in God's promises, one who is convinced that Jesus has been raised from the dead, one who has become convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and author of salvation, George A. Kennedy, New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism, George A. Kennedy (University of North Carolina Press: 1984).
