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SWEAR

-an offensive word, used especially as an expression of anger.

Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Matthew 23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew 23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Matthew 23:20-22 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew 26:74, Mark 14:71 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews 6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

By the use of SWEAR in the above texts, it would appear that to swear by something, was a stronger commitment than just to take an oath.

Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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NEW TESTAMENT
Ref ……………. Type.. TO………….. From……………..Reason
Matt 1:18-25 D Joseph Angel Take Mary as wife
Matt 2:1-12 D Wiseman ? Don’t return to Herod
Matt 2:13-15 D Joseph Angel Flee into Egypt
Matt 2:19-21 D Joseph Angel Return to Isreal
Matt 2:22-23 D Joseph ? Don’t live in Jerusalem
Matt 3:16 John The Baptist
Matt 17:1-9 V P. J. J. Mos-Elij Kingdom to Come
Matt 27:15-23 D P Wife ? nothing to do with Jesus
Matt 28:1-8 ? At Tomb Angel
Mark 1:9-11 John The Baptist
Mark 16:1-8
Luke 1:5-22 V Zacharias Gaberiel You will have a son
Luke 1:26-38 V Mary Gaberiel You will birth Son of God
Luke 2:8-15 V Sheperds Angels Go see Christ Child
Luke 2:25-35 ? Simon Holy Ghost Would see Lord’s Christ
Luke 3:21-22 John The Baptist
Luke 9:1-9 V P. J. J. Mos-Elij Kingdom to Come
Luke 24:1-49 ? At Tomb Angel
John 1:32-34 John The Baptist
John 20:1-23 ? At Tomb Angel
Acts 2:1-3 ? 120 Disciples Tongues
Acts 7:54-60 ? Stephen God Jesus
Acts 8:26-28 ? Philip Angel Go to Gaza
Acts 8:29-40 ? Philip Spirit Go to Chariot
Acts 9:10-16 V Ananias Lord Go to Saul
Acts 10:1-7 V Cornelius Angel Call for Peter
Acts 10:9-20 V Peter Kill and Eat all foods
Acts 11:5-18 V Peter Angel Go to Gentiles
Acts 12:7-11 V Peter Angel Get out of Prision
Acts 9:3-6 ? Paul Lord Go to Damascus
Acts 22:3-10 V Paul Lord Paul’s calling
Acts 26:9-18 V Paul Lord Paul’s calling
Acts 9:12 V Ananias Lord Saul’s sight
Acts 16:9-10 V Paul Lord Call to Macedonia
Acts 18:9-11 V Paul Lord Speak, be not afraid
Acts 22:17-21 V Paul Lord Get out of Jerusalem

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Paul writes to the Believers in the Galatian Church not to return to the law:
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
In his letter to the church in Ephesus he reminded them of our position with the Lord after we are saved:
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Paul wrote to Philippi that even though he was not with them they should continue to serve the Lord:
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation …
And to the church in Colossian he reminded them of his teaching about the MYSTRIES that had been revealed to them and also to be aware of what they were before salvation.
Colossians 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
When Timothy came to Paul and informed him of how well they were doing he told they how he wanted to come and see them.
1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and …
To Philemon he pleaded for a runaway slave as Paul returned him.
Philemon 1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable…
To the believing Jews who were still caught up in the temple worship and trying to follow the LAW he wrote:
Hebrews 2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, …
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin …
He reminds the Jews of God’s promises to their fathers, a better land.
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

BUT NOW as we study and learn the word of God we need to be sharing it with our unsaved friends before its too late.

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The KEY verse is really 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

A physical ritual given to Abraham to pass on to all his male descendants.
Acts 7:8 And He (GOD) gave him (ABRAHAM) the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Scripture to study:
In Scripture, Circumcision always referred to the Jew:
John 7:22-23
Acts 7:8 Acts 10:45 Acts 11:2
Romans 2:25-29 Romans 3:1 Romans 3:30 Romans 4:9-12 Romans 15:8
1 Corinthians 7:19
Galatians 2:8-9 Galatians 2:12 Galatians 5:6 Galatians 5:11 Galatians 6:15
Ephesians 2:11
Philippians 3:3
Colossians 2:11 Colossians 3:11 Colossians 4:11
Titus 1:10

In Scripture, uncircumcision referred to the Gentile or those that were cut off from God:
Romans 2:25-27 Romans 3:30 Romans 4;9-10
1 Corinthians 7:19
Galatians 2:7 Galatians 5:6 Galatians 6:15
Ephesians 2:11
Colossians 2:13 Colossians 3:11

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Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Barbarian (in ancient times) a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian).  An insulting word for a person from an uncivilized culture or a person with no manners. 

Scythian also called Scyth, Saka, and Sacae, member of a nomadic people, originally of Iranian stock, known from as early as the 9th century bce who migrated westward from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine in the 8th and 7th centuries bce.

Both need to believe in Christ, His death, burial and resurrection.

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1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

1 Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

The Believer professes that the Lord Jesus died on the cross, was buried in a tomb and rose again after 3 days and 3 nights (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and confesses HE is God (Romans 10:9).

An unbeliever denies this event happened.

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Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Free; not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And He created them equal.

Bond, Free, Male, Female, Jew, Greek doesn’t matter. Without belief in God according to scripture you are bound for eternity without hope.

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Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

The only two places in scripture that Christian is used. It was originally meant as a derogatory term.

Today it means “a person is a believer in Christianity”, “a follower of Christ’s teaching”.

A Non Christian is a person who is not a Christian

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2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

What is an ungodly person?
Not accepting God or a particular religious doctrine; irreligious; atheistic; sinful; wicked; impious; not conforming to religious tenets or canons: an ungodly life.

Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Peter writes to believing Jews:
1 Peter 1:15-16 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Definition of unholy.
1 showing disregard for what is holy : wicked.
2 deserving of censure an unholy alliance.
3 very unpleasant : god-awful an unholy mess.

1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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