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NASB | Philippians 2:1 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 2:1 Therefore if there is any encouragement and comfort in Christ [as there certainly is in abundance], if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship [that we share] in the Spirit, if [there is] any [great depth of] affection and compassion, |
Subject: Standing firm in one Spirit/spirit? |
Bible Note: Hi terrib, You are indicating by your parenthesis that if you were capitalizing and using a version that capitalized, then you would capitalize Word in those passages. I encourage you to think of and consider things like that; however in the context of the passages do you not think that the Isaiah passages are speaking of "words" rather than the "Word"? We want to find out what God is saying rather than what we in our openness and creativeness can devise. What is it that we should receive from Him? I believe we have a promise, a down payment, from the Holy Spirit of the holy spirit. So I would say that the Word does indeed give us the promise of the words. 2) At some time in the past I compared your Isaiah 55:11 reference with 1 Corinthians 2:9-16. Consider the spiritual words and spiritual thoughts in this comparison. Isaiah 55:8, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth, And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 So shall My/ word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what (I) desire..." Compare/contrast 1 Corinthians 2:10, "For to us God revealed them [the things prepared] through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit/ of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the *spirit *which is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by (God),..." These are the things which we also should speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the [Holy, NKJ] Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 3)) 1 Cor 2:11, "...Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit/ of God." 1 Cor 2:16, "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?/ But we have the mind of Christ." 4) I think that we can have the mind of Christ. Not the Mind or the thoughts of the Spirit; but we have been given the *spirit, the words from God. 1 Cor 2:12 above. From the heart, Ray |