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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewhere in scripture positively. And Jesus explicitly te...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewher

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul identified in chapter 1 that there are two types of blasphemers: ones like himself who were ignorant and deceived and should receive mercy, and others like Hymenaeus and Alexander who blasph...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul identified in chapter 1 that there are two types of blasphemers: ones like himself who were ignorant and deceived and should receive mercy,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Actually, Paul is writing to Timothy and his purpose was to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange (false) doctrines. He wasn’t instructing Timothy to tell anyone to stop teaching truth...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Actually, Paul is writing to Timothy and his purpose was to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange (false) doctrines. He wasn’t instruc

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC When taken in context, Paul is not s

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC When taken in context, Paul is not stopping anyone from teaching truth to anyone. Paul wrote to Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching *false d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-24

@rootcausesleuth Paul is quoting from Ps 14/53 and assuming he isn’t taking the

@rootcausesleuth Paul is quoting from Ps 14/53 and assuming he isn’t taking the Psalmist out of context, this is talking about all the fools who deny the existence of God, not every single person. ht

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-23

@YoungOneJosh1 @RealerBrogan @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem 3. 1Ti 2:12 - ‘a woman is not to teach or have authority over a man’ - 2:11-12 is in the singular, contrasting with 2:9-10 showing Paul is now dealing with a specific situation where he doesn...

@YoungOneJosh1 @RealerBrogan @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem 3. 1Ti 2:12 - ‘a woman is not to teach or have authority over a man’ - 2:11-12 is in the singular, contrasting with 2:9-10 showing Paul is no

with 2:9-10 1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-23

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother If Paul is addressing the women in v9-10 in the plural, why does he suddenly switch to the singular? Also, why would Paul stop anyone from teaching truth to anyone when he said in 1Ti 1:3 that he ...

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother If Paul is addressing the women in v9-10 in the plural, why does he suddenly switch to the singular? Also, why would Paul stop anyone from teachin

1Ti 1:3 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@dalepartridge Dale, there was a public square in the first century too… and Pau

@dalepartridge Dale, there was a public square in the first century too… and Paul said “always with grace, seasoned with salt.” This is about entertaining the mob?? https://t.co/FkQBrSqF1B

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You are just explaining what you think this passage means. I mean the context of the letter. Who was Paul writing it to? What is the purpose of his writing? What does he say about those who blasph...

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You are just explaining what you think this passage means. I mean the context of the letter. Who was Paul writing it to? What is the purpose of hi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@1Maccabees2_68 @BornIn2Soul @thelovergirljas You might want to revisit these verses in their context. Paul said in 1Tim 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines. His purpose was not to stop anyone from...

@1Maccabees2_68 @BornIn2Soul @thelovergirljas You might want to revisit these verses in their context. Paul said in 1Tim 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange

1Tim 1:3 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@NotGunaGive @saltstyles @5Solas2 Wow...that's embarrassing... did you read the

@NotGunaGive @saltstyles @5Solas2 Wow...that's embarrassing... did you read the context? Paul was stopping certain people from teaching false doctrine. He wasn't stopping women from speaking. My good

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@pjgurry @carol66944 Actually, since Paul clearly shows submission is mutual, for this reason we know that whatever he says after Eph 5:21 is not about authority or hierarchy. I recently responded to another thread involving Andy Stanley, Mike Winge...

@pjgurry @carol66944 Actually, since Paul clearly shows submission is mutual, for this reason we know that whatever he says after Eph 5:21 is not about authority or hierarchy. I recently responded to

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—includin

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—including husbands—to lives of self-giving, Spirit-filled mutuality. To miss this is to risk treating the gospel’s transforming

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Similarly, when Paul writes that husbands are to love their wives as Christ love

Similarly, when Paul writes that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her, he is by no means excluding wives from the same calling since this is the call

Eph 5:1-2 Php 2:3-5 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

If you neglect what is being said for every Christian, you risk making the same

If you neglect what is being said for every Christian, you risk making the same mistake as others when they pit Paul against James in the faith works discussion. When Paul said faith and not works, h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

What Paul says in Eph 5:21 precludes any sort of hierarchy. In Eph 5:1–2, Paul

What Paul says in Eph 5:21 precludes any sort of hierarchy. In Eph 5:1–2, Paul sets the stage for the whole section: “walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us.” 👉This is

Eph 5:1 Eph 5:21 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

ἀλλήλων “each other” in Eph 5:21 is *reciprocal* so it cannot mean one way obedience. If subjection is reciprocal—as is clearly stated in Eph 5:21—then subjection has nothing to do with authority. Assuming this is about hierarchy is a category mist...

ἀλλήλων “each other” in Eph 5:21 is *reciprocal* so it cannot mean one way obedience. If subjection is reciprocal—as is clearly stated in Eph 5:21—then subjection has nothing to do with authority. A

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which is normal in Koine Greek, and that it is stated explicitly elsewhere (Col 3:18, Tit 2:4-5 and also 1Pe 3:5-6). However,

Eph 5:22 1Pe 3:5-6 Col 3:18 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

🧵Mark, unlike Mike Winger (@MikeWingerii), you’re actually engaging with the text.👏 Mike calls mutual submission a “trick,” but Peter warns us not to twist Paul’s words to mean what he never meant (2Pe 3:15–16). Paul taught mutual submission not ge...

🧵Mark, unlike Mike Winger (@MikeWingerii), you’re actually engaging with the text.👏 Mike calls mutual submission a “trick,” but Peter warns us not to twist Paul’s words to mean what he never meant (2

2Pe 3:15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Well, I certainly do agree with that. It’s this stuff about married women as a group being immature that I’m pushing back on. Why would Paul say: “What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you onl...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Well, I certainly do agree with that. It’s this stuff about married women as a group being immature that I’m pushing back on. Why would Paul say: “What? came the

1Cor 14:36 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So then if this is nothing more than the other times in the chapter where Paul tells the other to be silent, if a woman has a prophecy or scripture or song or…, can she speak? Because I haven’t yet gone to a ch...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So then if this is nothing more than the other times in the chapter where Paul tells the other to be silent, if a woman has a prophecy or scripture or song or…,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silencing of women in v36. So the married women are as a...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silenci

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So Paul can't address the whole church and then speci

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So Paul can't address the whole church and then specifically the men?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst A verse taken out of its context is a pretext for a p

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst A verse taken out of its context is a pretext for a proof text. Paul’s stated purpose was for Timothy to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines. The idea of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@carol66944 Sorry. However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to

@carol66944 Sorry. However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to Paul sending a persecutor of the church instead of someone else.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@carol66944 However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to Paul se

@carol66944 However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to Paul sending a persecutor of the church instead of someone else. Right?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ZEvans_7 @andrewhebert86 What if Paul is not addressing a culture-specific issue but rather an issue in the church at Ephesus? Paul is identifying a deceived woman teaching heresy whose husband is not deceived but silent—a situation reminiscent of ...

@ZEvans_7 @andrewhebert86 What if Paul is not addressing a culture-specific issue but rather an issue in the church at Ephesus? Paul is identifying a deceived woman teaching heresy whose husband is n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@andrewhebert86 Paul refers to the time sequence order of the creation of Adam a

@andrewhebert86 Paul refers to the time sequence order of the creation of Adam and Eve as connected to why Adam was not deceived and Eve was. There is no hierarchy of authority present in Gen 2.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@carol66944 For what very reason was Paul shown mercy? Because he acted in ignor

@carol66944 For what very reason was Paul shown mercy? Because he acted in ignorance and unbelief. “Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I

1Tim 1:13 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-17

@carol66944 Why does Paul have to say to Timothy that the goal of their instruct

@carol66944 Why does Paul have to say to Timothy that the goal of their instruction is love? Why would Timothy think anything else? Remember whenever your parents disciplined you and said, “we are do

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-16

RT @chris_jolliff: Some Dangers of Covenantal Theology | Dr. Paul Martin Henebur

RT @chris_jolliff: Some Dangers of Covenantal Theology | Dr. Paul Martin Henebury 1. The presumption of not reading the Bible for what it…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-16

@DMAC22131964 @paulsfam4 Listing Bible verses which are often taken out of conte

@DMAC22131964 @paulsfam4 Listing Bible verses which are often taken out of context is not how to defend a teaching. A text taken out of its context is a pretext for a prooftext.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-15

@paulsfam4 Calvinism has been around since the Old Testament? Wow, I haven’t he

@paulsfam4 Calvinism has been around since the Old Testament? Wow, I haven’t heard that one before. How do you know that I don’t know the scriptures? You mean because I disagree with you I don’t kno

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-15

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Trolling? Seriously? Why are you dismissing my arguments in this way? Maybe you are trolling, but that’s not what I’m doing. Paul continues describing deacons in the same way as elders using grammatically masculine forms as ...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Trolling? Seriously? Why are you dismissing my arguments in this way? Maybe you are trolling, but that’s not what I’m doing. Paul continues describing deacons in the same way

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad “Women likewise…” “Likewise” (ὡσαύτως) connects these women to the previous category (i.e., overseers or deacons), just as 1Ti 3:8 uses the same word to transition to deacons. Paul highlights some special things for women bu...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad “Women likewise…” “Likewise” (ὡσαύτως) connects these women to the previous category (i.e., overseers or deacons), just as 1Ti 3:8 uses the same word to transition to deacons

1Ti 3:8 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Paul says that a married person’s interests are divided, so why would he then require a person to be married to be an elder? Especially given he wasn’t married? “But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried i...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Paul says that a married person’s interests are divided, so why would he then require a person to be married to be an elder? Especially given he wasn’t married? “But I want y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@carol66944 Paul had to say that love was the goal of his instruction for Timoth

@carol66944 Paul had to say that love was the goal of his instruction for Timothy to stop certain ones from teaching strange doctrines because it would be easy to treat deceived people harshly (just l

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad You are hypothesizing. Nowhere does he identify as a widower. That would be an important detail. It would also be important to know if he was married but his wife left him. But Paul advocates for everyone (if possible) to be...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad You are hypothesizing. Nowhere does he identify as a widower. That would be an important detail. It would also be important to know if he was married but his wife left him. B

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@DBryanRhodes @TomBuck First, Even spoke to the serpent as she was reasoning thr

@DBryanRhodes @TomBuck First, Even spoke to the serpent as she was reasoning through the deception. She didn't 'preach to Adam.' Second, that's not at all Paul's argument in 1Ti 2:12-14. Try again. h

1Ti 2:12-14 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Ah, you are going to try to claim that he couldn't be a 'highly respected' pharisee without being married, right? So is the requirement in 1Ti 3:2 "Must have been married at some point in time"? Paul says he is single and ne...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Ah, you are going to try to claim that he couldn't be a 'highly respected' pharisee without being married, right? So is the requirement in 1Ti 3:2 "Must have been married at

1Ti 3:2 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@Super_SloMoe @bookkeepPLUS Jesus told his disciples to teach all nations to obey and teach what He commanded them. This was not meant only for males. And 1Ti 2:12 in the context of Paul's personal letter to Timothy regarding him instructing certain ...

@Super_SloMoe @bookkeepPLUS Jesus told his disciples to teach all nations to obey and teach what He commanded them. This was not meant only for males. And 1Ti 2:12 in the context of Paul's personal le

1Ti 2:12 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Really? From one comment you think I told you everything I know about Paul? If Paul meant an elder must be married, then Paul was disqualified himself. Therefore, he clearly didn’t mean this. Further, since he commended ever...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Really? From one comment you think I told you everything I know about Paul? If Paul meant an elder must be married, then Paul was disqualified himself. Therefore, he clearly

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad 100% yes. So then can you please answer my question? Is

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad 100% yes. So then can you please answer my question? Is Paul not then disqualified based on your interpretation?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Paul is most definitely an overseer in addition to an a

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Paul is most definitely an overseer in addition to an apostle. Are you saying that Paul is disqualified because he wasn’t married?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@BlacktopPreachr What scripture are you referring to? Paul did tell the Ephesia

@BlacktopPreachr What scripture are you referring to? Paul did tell the Ephesian elders to be alert for wolves, but he did not tell them to remove them—he warned them and exhorted them to guard the f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@sstaedtler98 @BenGuptill @sola_chad I disagree. There are different forms of pr

@sstaedtler98 @BenGuptill @sola_chad I disagree. There are different forms of prophecy and explaining the meaning of the text is one of them. That doesn’t mean that prophecy is not meant to be tested!

1Co 14:29 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage People criticize egalitarians for claiming that it’s about Christian women following the Artemis cult when Paul’s words suggest it’s about genealogies and what sounds like Jewish myths. And the idea of usurping mal...

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage People criticize egalitarians for claiming that it’s about Christian women following the Artemis cult when Paul’s words suggest it’s about genealogies and what soun

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@slyoung687 Yes, but Paul nor Jesus tells or shows by their actions that wolf ta

@slyoung687 Yes, but Paul nor Jesus tells or shows by their actions that wolf tares should be pulled up by the root now.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@bannedpastor 1Ti 2:12 has nothing to do with feminism. Paul wrote a personal le

@bannedpastor 1Ti 2:12 has nothing to do with feminism. Paul wrote a personal letter to Timothy to so he would instruct certain people to stop spreading strange doctrines, not YJ stop anyone from teac

1Ti 2:12 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@NonEgalitarian @NaturalHierarch No it doesn't. It's dealing with a specific iss

@NonEgalitarian @NaturalHierarch No it doesn't. It's dealing with a specific issue in Ephesus. Why does Paul use the singular? https://t.co/XIjnmMzrMD

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