OFFENDED OR PEACEFUL?

OFFENDED OR PEACEFUL?

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Psalms 119:165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

James 2:10; 3:2  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. … For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

  Yesterday I wrote about studying and discovering that “offend/offended” in Bible context is not simply emotional reaction. Though it involves a variety of emotions, it means to stumble over; hindrance to healthy maturation interfering with our relationship with God and people. In the DT I included there is the circulating benefit of “There is lasting peace for those who love your (Jehovah’s) teachings. Nothing can make those people stumble.” (GW Ps.119:165. Note more translations below.)

  The need to illustrate this truth for some was revealed.

·         The Ten Commandments are God’s teachings. If we do not love them as His protective fencing for us, we stumble over the emotions of guilt and fear.

·         If we do not love His teachings on deliverance and victory in and over life’s trials and tribulations we stumble over distracting fears and drama of ego.

·         If we don’t affect 1Peter 5:6-7 we stumble over anxiety and all its companion emotionalisms . . . plus the dread of Apollyon overtaking us.

·         If we don’t affect God’s truth on eternal life realized only through and by trusting His “only begotten son” we stumble in and over the darkness of our soul and the uncertainties of untimely death. John 3:1-21.

·         If we as His John 1:12 children don’t affect His John 1:9 teaching during our remaining life this side of heaven, we stumble over guilt . . . or even callousness of conscience.

  Any further questions? Or have I offended you by sharing His teachings that are in opposition to man’s ungodly philosophies and remedies? (1Cor.3:1-23)

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(ASV)  Great peace have they that love thy law; And they have no occasion of stumbling.

(CEV)  You give peace of mind to all who love your Law. Nothing can make them fall.

(ESV)  Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

(GW)  There is lasting peace for those who love your teachings. Nothing can make those people stumble.

(ISV)  Great peace belongs to those who love your instruction, and nothing makes them stumble.

(LITV)  Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumblingblock to them.

(MKJV)  Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block for them.

(Webster)  Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble.

(YLT)  Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.