Thematic Bible: Adaption of truth
Thematic Bible
Adaption of truth » Paul's example
To the weak became I as weak, to win the weak. In all thing I fashioned myself to all men, to save, at the leastway, some.
Adaption of truth » Simple truth for the immature
I gave you milk to drink and not meat. For ye then were not strong - no, neither yet are strong.
Adaption of truth » Some unable to receive deeper truths
For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:
Adaption of truth » Different messages to different classes
I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye have overcome the wicked. I write unto you young children, how that ye know the father.
Adaption of truth » Human weakness necessitates
I have yet many things to say unto you, But ye cannot bear them away now.
Adaption of truth » Feeding the lambs
When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs."
Adaption of truth » The use of parables
And with many such similitudes he preached the word unto them, after as they might hear it.