From Disobedience To Obedience
"As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance" (I Peter 1:14).
A graphic figure of speech often used in the Bible is the attribution of character traits to parental inheritance.
Born Into God's Family
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not" (I John 3:1).
Living Stones In The Holy Temple
"And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. . . .
An Approved Workman
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15).
What Christ's Death Meant to Him
"[Christ] gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:14).
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