On that day—oracle of the LORD— You shall call me “My husband,” and you shall never again call me “My baal.” Hosea 2:18 NABRE Hosea is another prophet of God who speaks about the infidelity of Israel to God. Hosea speaks of his own wife and compares her living to…
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Mark 10:8 – February 25, 2022
and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. Mark 10:8 NABRE Jesus is challenged by religious leaders about divorce. Moses allowed a bill of divorce, a way for the woman to be freed from her obligation to her husband and allow her…
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Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.” Mark 2:19 NABRE Jews were challenged to fast one day a year, Pharisees and other religious leaders fasted two times a week and John…
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But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days. Luke 5:35 NABRE Jesus is asked a question about His disciples and fasting. Leaders often ask their disciples to fast and enact self-denial as a means to bring themselves…
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He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.” Matthew 19:8 NABRE Jesus is asked a question about the lawfulness of couples divorcing, by the Pharisees, religious leaders who were tasked with promoting…
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