Heb 5:11-14 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. (12) For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need…
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Reviler is the biblical word for an abuser. Other words are used in Scripture to describe the evil that abusers do, but this title “reviler” gets to the heart of it. You see that little root in the word – “vil” – which reminds us of related terms like “villain,” or “villify” or, hmmm…. “vile.” A reviler is vile. Anyway, what a reviler does is to make the innocent be the villain. And they do this by accusing. Revilers are accusers and that evil is part of the very nature of the devil himself:
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for…
Read More1Jn 3:12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.Gen 4:3-5 In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit…
Read MoreExo 2:23-25 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. (24) And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with…
Read MoreJob 2:10b Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. When the Lord tested Job, and it was a severe test as you know, his wife faltered and essentially told him to give up. In response,…
Read MoreRom 2:15-16 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them (16) on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. I suppose…
Read MorePro 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.Pro 15:5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. If you take your concordance or use the search engine in Bible software and search for "fool"…
Read More1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. One of the key, central sins (perhaps THE central sin) of a child is selfishness. "That toy is…
Read MoreGal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—2Co 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become…
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