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NASB | 1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this work of my own free will, then I have a reward; but if it is not of my will [but by God's choosing], I have been entrusted with a [sacred] stewardship. |
Subject: grace for the repentant heart |
Bible Note: Hi teragram123, John the baptist was the forerunner of Christ. John baptized in water the people who came to him confessing their sins. Matthew 3:7, "...and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins." The self-righteous Pharisee and Sadducees were not baptized. The danger that they face and anyone else that does not know that he himself is a sinner, is that they are like chaff and useless for the kingdom of God. Romans 2:5, "But because of [in accordance with] your stubborness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who WILL RENDER TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS..." Jesus came to John with no sins to confess and needing no water baptism for cleansing. But it was to fulfill all righteousness. Psalm 40:10 and Heb 10:7, "Then I said, 'Behold I have come. In the scroll [roll, volume] of the book it is written of Me; to do Thy will, O God." Jesus Christ is righteous. 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us...and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world." From the heart, Ray |
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