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NASB | Hebrews 13:17 ¶ Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 13:17 ¶ Obey your [spiritual] leaders and submit to them [recognizing their authority over you], for they are keeping watch over your souls and continually guarding your spiritual welfare as those who will give an account [of their stewardship of you]. Let them do this with joy and not with grief and groans, for this would be of no benefit to you. |
Subject: Why is marijuana use prohibited? |
Bible Note: Dear Norrie, Greetings in the name of Jesus! I have yet to hear from Steve yet for clarification, so I will just answer your comment. Laws prohibiting drug use are quite different from laws allowing immoral action. We are not made to abort babies. (Please! I am NOT putting up for the abortion laws in America! The laws in Japan are even worse!) Unless a law specifically prohibits us from serving God, we are to obey. True, there are some laws that might be interpreted as so, but drug use isn't one of them. :-) Indeed, "Steve" was being very gracious to "jini" while discouraging the use of marijuana. Norrie, I love you, but I gotta say this: You THINK nobody would have known! True, SOME may not have known, but isn't sin like that? We usually are convinced that it is not evident, and that's why we continue! If marijuana has the effects that I know it has, then these were evident even if nobody knew the root cause. So... a person who smokes pot 'without letting on to anyone' is living in denial and-or a great liar! :-) Either way, those 'quiet tokers' are not 'OK' in God's sight. Again, I speak from some personal experience, and abundant experience by association. I am so happy to be SAVED! Now about that property... is it sandy beach? ;-) In Christ Jesus, charis |