Living Room Study

Colossians 4
“Walk in wisdom, concerning outsiders, making the most of the time.  Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.”  Col 4: 5-6
I love to fish, although I haven’t done it in years.  One summer, my brother and I fished every day, despite [...]

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Colossians 3
“Therefore, put to death whatever in you is worldly: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient, and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.”  Colossians 3: 5-7
When I was young, my parents used to frequent a [...]

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Colossians 2
“If you died with Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world?  Why do you submit to regulations: “Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?  All these things refer to what is destroyed by being used; they are human commands and doctrines.  Although [...]

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Colossians 1
“God wanted to make known to those among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of His mystery, which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory.  We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Messiah.  I labor for this, striving with His strength that works [...]

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Philippians 4
“I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot.  I have learned the secret of being content – whether in abundance or in need.  I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.  Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.”  [...]

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Philippians 3
“Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Messiah and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Messiah – the righteousness from God based on faith.”   Phil. 3: [...]

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