Lesson 10 -- Written by Marcia McCance
1. What it says:
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.
21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
22 "Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth";
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness––by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
2 What it means:
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear,
not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently?
But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.
21 For to this you were called,
because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that you should follow His steps:
22 "Who committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth";
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return;
when He suffered, He did not threaten,
but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we,
having died to sins,
might live for righteousness
––by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were like sheep going astray,
but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
3. What it means to me:
Definitions and Synonyms:
1. Assertive – self-confident, self-assured, confident, firm, forceful, forward, pushy, aggressive
2. Astray – 4105 planaw planao plan-ah’-o -- AV-deceive 24, err 6, go astray 5, seduce 2, wander 1, be out of the way 1; 39 -- 1) to cause to stray, lead aside from the right way -- 1a) to go astray, wander, roam about -- 2) metaph. -- 2a) to lead away from the truth, (seduce) to lead into error, to deceive -- 2b) to be led into error -- 2c) to be led aside from the path of virtue, to go astray, sin -- 2d) to sever or fall away from the truth -- 2d1) of heretics -- 2e) to be led away into error and sin
3. Commendable – the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace -- praiseworthy, admirable, worthy, creditable, laudable, estimable, Antonym: lamentable
4. Committed – give oneself over to God’s power and use – for God to keep, use, take care of, manage.
5. Conscience-- 4893 suneidhsiv suneidesis soon-i’-day-sis – co-perception, i.e. moral consciousness:— conscience. -- 1) the consciousness of anything -- 2) the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad, prompting to do the former and shun the latter, commending one, condemning the other -- 2a) the conscience
6. Example -- 5261 upogrammov hupogrammos hoop-og-ram-mos’ – from a compound of 5259 and 1125; -- AV-example 1; 1 -- 1) a writing copy, including all the letters of the alphabet, given to beginners as an aid in learning to draw them -- 2) an example set before one
7. Healed – 2390 iaomai iaomai ee-ah’-om-ahee -- AV-heal 26, make whole 2; 28 -- 1) to cure, heal -- 2) to make whole -- 2a) to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one’s) salvation
8. Honor – respect, admiration, credit, reputation, tribute, revere, reverence, venerate,
9. Reviled -- to speak ill of, insult, abuse, condemn, despise, berate, disparage, Antonym: praise
10. Righteousness – 1343 dikaiosunh dikaiosune dik-ah-yos-oo’-nay -- AV-righteousness 92; 92 -- 1) in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God -- 1a) the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God -- 1b) integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking, feeling, and acting -- 2) in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due –Synonyms: virtue, morality, justice, decency, uprightness, rectitude, honesty; Antonym: wickedness
11. Salvation – deliverance, rescue, recovery, escape, saved
12. Stripes – a bruise, wale, wound that trickles with blood
13. Submissive – A Greek military term meaning "to arrange [troop divisions] in a military fashion under the command of a leader". In non-military use, it was "a voluntary attitude of giving in, cooperating, assuming responsibility, and carrying a burden". -- obedient, passive, compliant, acquiescent, subservient, docile, meek, dutiful – Antonym: assertive
14. Suffer – undergo, experience, bear, endure, go through, put up with
15. Threaten – menace, intimidate, bully, pressure, warn, terrorize; Antonym: protect
16. Wrongfully – unjustly, undeserved, without fault
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