Question Some passages (like Matthew 6:25-34) seem to say that God will take care of us, while others (like 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15) say that if a person does not work, he shouldn’t eat. So are we supposed to work or wait for God to provide? Answer This is a great question showing why the historical […]
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Chapter seven brings attention again to the adulterous woman, the fourth time since chapter two. After another warning and encouragement for his son to keep Solomon’s instruction, including a reference to binding them to himself as with the Law in Deuteronomy 6:8, Solomon spent the rest of the chapter telling a story of a young
Chapter five returns to instructions about certain groups in the church, specifically widows and elders. The church is to be a family of families, meaning that we should relate to each other as fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters (1 Timothy 5:1-16). Like one would take care of an aging grandparent, Paul said that the congregation
