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To: annalex; Alamo-Girl; AlbionGirl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; P-Marlowe

You are looking for verses 15-17 in:

2 Timothy 3

You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. 2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them! 6For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires, 7who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth. 9But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men,* their folly will become plain to everyone.
10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, 15and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All scripture is inspired by God and is* useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.


13,233 posted on 04/21/2007 12:59:07 PM PDT by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: DarthVader; Alamo-Girl; AlbionGirl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; P-Marlowe

Yes, I know what I am looking at. Any comments?


13,237 posted on 04/21/2007 1:45:00 PM PDT by annalex
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To: DarthVader
10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

D, following is a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

You will find no bigger fan of the Founding Fathers than me. And while I don't want to speak for God; I believe they were Providentially sent. No matter how they departed from any attachment to organized religion or Christianity in particular, the Hand of God is everywhere around them.

Jefferson, that good old slave owner, creates a bill of rights that is and becomes a rebuke unto himself. I see God's hand in that. Jefferson and Adams both died on the same day, the 4th of July, in the same year.

As I see it, the founding of the U.S. testifies to God's will that His people be free from tyranny, so that the only tyranny they could encounter would be a yoke of their own making.

13,241 posted on 04/21/2007 3:01:01 PM PDT by AlbionGirl
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