The Fear of the Lord

What is “the Fear of the Lord”? The Bible defines the fear of the Lord: Proverbs 8:13 – The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Why is it important to understand the fear of the...

The Septuagint – The Greek Old Testament

The Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, “seventy”) is a Koine Greek translation of a Hebraic textual tradition that included certain texts which were later included in the canonical Hebrew Bible and other related texts which were not. As the primary...

Hypocrisy

Noun – Simulation; a feigning to be what one is not; or dissimulation, a concealment of one’s real character or motives. More generally, hypocrisy is simulation, or the assuming of a false appearance of virtue or religion; a deceitful show of a good...

Malice

Noun Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither...

Rebuke

Verb – To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction. Noun – In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been...