Fill our hearts with Your love so that we can spread this love throughout the world to annihilate all evil. Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, You have commanded us to refrain from solving evil with evil. Let us counter evil with good and as we all know good will always prevail over evil. Let us not try to solve evil with evil because, as Jesus says, the whole world will be full of evil. Let us today embrace love in all our actions, communications, judgements and thoughts because love conquers all evil. This love will begin to thaw his/her hatred, temper or bad attitude. At this point, you are supposed to use more positive talk with love to the person. If you respond in kind to him/her more anger and hatred begins to build up and can spiral out of proportion. Have you ever realized that when someone wrongs you and you tell him/her that you leave the punishment to the Lord, he/she reflects consciously for a few seconds before responding? Then begins to retort back at you in fear of being regarded as a loser. It means if your neighbour has wronged you, don’t let your anger overcome you, make sure you communicate your displeasure but leave the situation solved with no hatred or hard feelings between you both. Because to me, that's very personal.I mean, speak with love, caution with love, rebuke with love, etc. The Manhattan billionaire had struggled to articulate his favorite verse in an interview with Bloomberg Politics last August, remarking, "I wouldn't want to get into it. However, as it is written: What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived the things God has prepared for those who. Trump, who has often mentioned the Bible as his favorite book, with "The Art of the Deal" second, gave a different answer when asked his favorite verse last September, telling the Christian Broadcasting Network that he often looked to the Book of Proverbs' chapter about envy. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.” If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." These punishments were for the purpose of deterring anyone thinking about doing harm to another (Deuteronomy 19:20-21). Or if an ear should say, Because I am not an eye I do not belong to the body, it does not for this reason belong any less to the body. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death."īiblical scholars generally interpret "eye for eye," which was derived from the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, as a restriction on retaliation for personal injuries - in other words, only an eye for an eye.īut in Matthew (5:38-42) in the New Testament, Jesus repudiates even that notion. "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."Īnother passage, Leviticus 24:19-21, reads, "And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour as he hath done, so shall it be done to him breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows," the passage reads, in the King James translation. Trump appears to be referring to a passage from Exodus 21-24, which lays out the Old Testament rules governing personal behavior. And we can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you.” “And we have to be firm and have to be very strong. “And they laugh at our face, and they’re taking our jobs, they’re taking our money, they’re taking the health of our country,” he continued. But you know, if you look at what’s happening to our country, I mean, when you see what’s going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us.” “And some people-look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that. I mean, you know, when we get into the Bible, I think many. WHAM 1180 AM radio host Bob Lonsberry asked the Republican front-runner if he had a favorite verse or story from the Bible that’s impacted his thinking or character. Trump's favorite Bible verse: 'Eye for an eye'ĭonald Trump’s favorite Bible verse involves an “eye for an eye,” he said Thursday.
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