Hey everyone! This will be my first post on the blog so I'm a little nervous and I hope everything I say makes sense so here it goes. Today while I was reading chapter 12 of Proverbs one particular verse caught my attention. It was Proverbs 12:18. I remembered from camp talking about how to make connections within the Bible and I thought that I'd give it a shot. There are three verses that I'd like to make known.
"Reckless words pierce like a sword,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing."
Proverbs 12:18
"Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."
Ephesians 6:17
"Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scpeter." He treads winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty."
Revelation 19:15
After reading the chapter today and seeing that verse, the first thing I thought of was discussing the verse from Revelation in small groups. I found the verse from Ephesians because of a Sunday School class from 7th grade. I love how these three verses, written over the course of 700 years all have the same concept and same truth as each other. They all refer to the tongue, the sword, as the word of God and the power behind the wisdom that it contains.
I completely agree. What I think is more awesome is that the idea, like you said being written over a 700 years, it all relates to one another.
ReplyDeleteSince the Bible was written by many people, you cannot call that a coincidence. That's God.