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Get It While You Can

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Worldly desires – Do you find it disturbing that Paul’s view of ungodliness (asebḗ) is paralleled with kosmikós epithymías?  Reading it in translation might reduce your trepidation,…
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Just Say “No”

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Deny ungodliness – arnéomai is the Greek verb of refusal.  “‘To say no’ in answer to a question; ‘to refuse’ in relation to a claim or…
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Re-education

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Instructing – Everything you need to know about life you learn in kindergarten.  It seems that God thinks that’s true too.  The verb used here is…
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Divine Help!!

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Has appeared – Why do you suppose Paul chooses this verb (epiphaínō) rather than the related but more common verb, phaínō?  The common verb means almost…
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Change of Heart

And it shall happen afterward: I will pour My spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.  Your elders shall dream dreams, your young men see visions.  And even upon male slaves and slavegirls in those days will I pour My Spirit.  Joel 3:1-2  Robert Alter Pour – The Hebrew verb…
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