25 Bible Verses about Limitedness
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Pilate replied: Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. The Jews said: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.
He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire!
I hate your New Moon Festivals and your appointed festivals. They are a burden to me. I am tired of putting up with them.
He is not a Jew who is one on the outside. Neither is circumcision that which is on the outside in the flesh.
The blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes from the burning of a young cow, sprinkled on the unclean made them outwardly clean.
We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.
Those who live through (in union with) (because of) Jesus Christ have no condemnation. [They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.] The law of the Spirit gives us life through (with) (because of) Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death. God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.read more.
God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part. When the perfect comes, the partial (imperfect) (incomplete) will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.read more.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.
Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.
Man's days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand. It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid. I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.read more.
I go to bed and I think: When will it be morning? But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn. My skin is clothed with worms and scabs. My flesh breaks open filled with pus. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope. O God, remember that my life is but a breath. I will never again see good. You see me now but not for long. Your eyes will be on me but I will be dead. Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back. They are gone forever from their home. They will not be seen again. I will not keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. I must complain in my bitterness. Am I a sea monster that you place a guard on me? When I think: 'My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep, you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.'
Lot moved about with Abram. He also had flocks and herds and tents. But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.read more.
Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left.
So David and his six hundred men went to the Besor Valley, where some were left behind. David and four hundred men went in pursuit. Two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Besor Valley stayed behind.
He finds no joy in strong horses, nor do brave soldiers please him. Jehovah is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.
Shallum son of Jabesh became king and ruled in Samaria for one month. It was in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah. Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria. He attacked Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He killed him and made himself king in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy he committed, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he does not differ from a bondservant, though he is owner of the estate. He is under guardians and stewards until the day set by the father. When we were children, we too were held in bondage. We were slaves to the arrangement of this world.
and so Jehovah says that the daughters of Zelophehad are free to marry anyone they wish but only within their own tribe.
A great disturbance occurred about The Way. A man named Demetrius, a silversmith made silver shrines of Diana. He brought a lot of business to the craftsmen. They gathered together along with similar related workmen, and said: Sirs, You know we receive a good income from this business.read more.
You see and hear that Paul, in Ephesus and throughout all Asia, has persuaded and turned away many people. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all. There is danger that our trade will lose its good name. The temple of the great goddess Artemis (Diana) would then become useless. The goddess who is worshiped in all Asia would be robbed of her divine majesty. When they heard this they were filled with anger. They shouted: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.
If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.
Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ. I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!
