The Sunday School Lesson Difficult New Testament Passages by Glenda Dibert
Apr 11, 2021
Difficult New Testament Passages (39:11)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 9:9-18; Romans 10:9-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10; Hebrews 6:1-11; Hebrews 10:26-31; 1 Peter 1:2-2; 2 Peter 1:10-11; 2 Timothy 3:16
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Romans 9:9-18
9) For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."
10) Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
11) For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
12) it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
13) Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14) What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
15) For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16) So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
17) For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
18) So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Romans 10:9-11
9) that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10) For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11) For the scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
2 Thessalonians 2:1-10
1) Now we beg you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him,
2) to the end that you won‘t be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
3) Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
4) he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
5) Don‘t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
6) Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
7) For the mystery of lawlessness does already work. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
8) Then will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nothing by the brightness of his coming;
9) even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10) and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn‘t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Hebrews 6:1-11
1) Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection -- not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
2) of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3) This will we do, if God permits.
4) For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5) and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
6) and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
7) For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
8) but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near a curse, whose end is to be burned.
9) But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, though we speak like this,
10) for God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served to the saints, and still do serve them.
11) We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
Hebrews 10:26-31
26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
28) A man who has set at nothing Moses‘ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
29) How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30) For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1 Peter 1:2-2
2) according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
2 Peter 1:10-11
10) Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
11) For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 3:16
16) Every scripture inspired by God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness,
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