Paul expected Jesus to return within the lifetime of his followers. 1:7-8, 10:11, 10:11,
15:51-52
Christians started out divided (into followers of Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Christ), and it has remained so ever since. 1:12, 3:4
Poor Paul is confused. First he says that he baptized no one. Well, except for Crispus and Gaius. And maybe Stephanus and his household. He can't remember if he did it to anyone else.
1:14-16
Jesus, who was without sin, was made into sin. This made the real sinners sinless. 5:21
Keep away from unbelievers. Neither marry nor be friends with them. 6:14-17
"Give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
The televangelist's favorite verse! 9:7
"For your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men ... Thanks be to God." God loves liberals! 9:13-15
Christians cannot be freethinkers, since all their thoughts and imaginings must be brought into captivity in
obedience to Christ. 10:5
There were these guys that Paul once knew, but he just can't remember whether it was in or out of the body. It was sort of an out of body experience. Anyway,
one of these guys was way up in the third heaven and the other guy was in paradise. He heard stuff, too, but it's illegal to talk about it. 12:2-4
Paul says he "will not spare" when he comes back to punish those who have sinned. 13:2
Are you a reprobate? Here's the test: if you know for sure that Jesus is in you, you're not a reprobate. Otherwise you are. 13:5
"If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." 5:2
"I would they were even cut off which trouble you." (The New Revised Standard Version translates this verse as: "I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!")
5:12
Witches, idol worshippers, and heretics will not go to heaven. (Guess where they'll be
going.) 5:20-21
"See how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand." 6:11
Slaves must obey their masters "as unto Christ." 6:5Colossians
"It pleased the Father ... having made peace through the blood of his cross." 1:19-20
"The gospel ... was preached to every creature ... under heaven." 1:23
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy." 2:8
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord." 3:18
"Servants [slaves], obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as
menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God." 3:22
Paul, with his usual modesty, proclaims that he is holy, just, and blameless. 2:10
He accuses the Jews of killing Jesus, persecuting the prophets, displeasing God, and
being "contrary to all men." The wrath of God will "come upon them to the
uttermost." 2:14-16
Paul would have come to visit the Thessalonians but Satan stopped him. 2:18
He expected Jesus to return within his lifetime and those of his followers. 2:19,
3:13, 4:15-17, 5:23
"Every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour." 4:4
"We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
Christians get the idea of the rapture from this verse. 4:17
"Prove all things; hold fast to what is good." 5:21
"Jesus ... in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God ... who shall be punished with everlasting destruction."
1:7-9
"Be not soon shaken in mind ... by letter as from us."
What letter is being referred to here? Is it 1 Thessalonians? If so, then should Christians not read it to avoid being "shaken in mind?"
2:2
Jesus will "consume" the wicked "with the spirit of his mouth." 2:8
Homosexuals are lawless, disobedient, unholy, and profane. 1:10
"Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." 1:20
Women are to dress modestly, "with shamefacedness" -- "not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or
costly array." 2:9
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a
woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 2:11-12
Men are superior to women since Adam was made before, and sinned after, Eve. But even though women are inferior to
men, they shouldn't be discouraged because they shall "be saved in childbearing." 2:14-15
"In the latter times some shall depart from the faith" by becoming vegetarians. 4:1-4
Real widows are "desolate" and pray "night and day." But those widows that experience pleasure
are "dead while [they] live." 5:5-6
You should help a widow only if she : is over 60 years old, had only one husband, has raised children,
has lodged strangers, has "washed the saints feet," has relieved the afflicted, and has "diligently
followed very good work." Otherwise, let them starve. "But the younger widows refuse [to help]: for ... they will
marry; having damnation." Besides the young widows are always idle tattlers -- "busybodies, spreading things
which they ought not ... some are already turned aside after Satan." 5:9-15
Publicly humiliate those who sin by announcing their sins in front of God and everybody so
"that others may also fear." 5:20
Stop drinking water. Drink wine for your "stomach's" sake. 5:23
"Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the
name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." 6:1
"Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be ... ready to distribute." 6:17-18
"Our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you."
The author of Hebrews never claims to be (and wasn't) Paul, but he wants people to think that he was. And it worked. That's why Hebrews is in the Bible. 13:23James
"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." 1:19
"Pure religion ... is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world." 1:27
The rich should not be treated better than the poor. 2:2-4
"Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time, and then vanisheth away." (All we are is dust in the wind.) 4:14
"Ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." 5:1
If you are sick, rely on the power of prayer. It works every time. 5:13-151 Peter
We are all predestined to be saved or damned. We have no say in the matter.
It was all determined by "the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." 1:2
The author believed that he was living in the "last times." 1:5, 1:7,
1:20, 4:7
"The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." 5:82 Peter
"No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." That's just your interpretation. 1:20
"There shall be false teachers among you, who ... shall bring in damnable heresies ... and bring upon themselves swift destruction ...
Their damnation slumbereth not." 2:1-3
"God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness." 2:4
"Noah ... a preacher of righteousness."
God drowned everyone on earth except for Noah [the first drunken "preacher of righteousness" (see Gen.9:20-25)] and his family.
2:5, 3:6
"Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes" 2:6
Lot, who in Gen.19:8 offers his two virgin daughters to a crowd of angel rapers and
later gets drunk and impregnates them (19:30-38), is a "just" and "righteous man."
2:7-8.
God knows how to punish those that lust or "despise government." (Watch out Teabaggers!) 2:9-14
The author believes the story in Numbers (22:28-30)
about the talking ass. 2:16
Those who lose their faith are like dogs that eat their own vomit. 2:22
The author of 2 Peter is aware of the failed expectations of early believers. He knows that Jesus, who was
supposed to come soon, didn't come at all. Many have begun to ask, "Where is the promise of his coming?" So he makes up the
"one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Believers have been using it ever since.
3:4-8
God will set the entire earth on fire so that he can burn non-believers to death. 3:7
When Jesus finally does come, the heavens will "pass away with a great noise" and the earth will "be burnt up." 3:10
