William Kerns
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William Kerns
highlighted Matthew 13:25 ESV
but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
Feb 9
William Kerns
highlighted Mark 4:30 ESV
And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?
Feb 9
William Kerns
highlighted Mark 4:26-29 ESV
And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
Feb 9
William Kerns
highlighted 1 John 1:9-10 ESV
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jan 24
William Kerns
highlighted Galatians 2:20-21 ESV
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Jan 24
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:28 ESV
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:26-27 ESV
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:23-25 ESV
After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:20-22 ESV
When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined.But on taking leave of them he said, "I will return to you if God wills," and he set sail from Ephesus.When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:16-19 ESV
And he drove them from the tribunal.And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:14-15 ESV
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted Acts 18:10-13 ESV
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people."And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law."
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:41-42 ESV
And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true."And many believed in him there.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:38-40 ESV
but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:35-37 ESV
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:31-34 ESV
The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:27-30 ESV
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.I and the Father are one."
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:24-26 ESV
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:21-23 ESV
Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
Jan 23
William Kerns
highlighted John 10:19-20 ESV
There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"
Jan 23