1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,… A well built stone gets to be one with the foundation. In the old Roman walls the mortar seems to be as hard as the stones, and the whole is like one piece; you must blow it to atoms before you can get the wall away. So is it with the true believer; he rests upon his Lord till he grows up into Him, till he is one with Jesus by a living union, so that you scarce know where the foundation ends and where the upbuilding begins; for the believer becometh all in Christ, even as Christ is all in all to him. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,WEB: For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
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