{"id":1131,"date":"2014-03-17T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realbiblestudy.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2014-03-17T21:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T01:46:42","slug":"daily-bible-nugget-199-romans-154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Daily Bible Nugget #199, Romans 15:4"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

The Nugget:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Scriptures are designed for comfort. Jesus told us not to be anxious about anything because God cares for us. Paul, too, teaches us to be careful or anxious for nothing. Peter tells us we are to cast all our cares upon God because he cares for us. Those are some of the comforting things to be read in the Bible for our comfort and encouragement. When I was teaching public high school I had a couple of students who informed me, or their parents informed me, that they were under the care of a psychiatrist. The parents, and even the students, informed me that what I taught them in English class, and my encouragement to them to read great literature, including the Bible, so changed their lives they no longer needed the services of their psychiatrist. Dr. Lehman Strauss, my pastor at Highland Park Baptist Church, then of Highland Park, a suburb inside of Detroit but now of Southfield Michigan, in a series of messages he presented on the book of Philippians, told us that if we read, understood, and applied that Bible book to our lives we would never be anxious or have the need to have a psychiatrist. In any case, there is much help, encouragement, direction, and comfort to be found in the Bible. Check out the cross references I have shared below for Romans 15:4 for a good sample of such helpful passages.<\/p>\n

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson\u2019s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible<\/em> on page 1298 for Romans 15:4.<\/p>\n

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/em> on page 1318 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Romans 15:4.<\/p>\n

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:<\/p>\n

Romans 15:4. whatsoever<\/strong>. +*Ro 4:23, 24. *1 Cor 9:9, 10. *1 Cor 10:11. +**2 Tim 3:16, 17. *2 P 1:19-21. written<\/strong>. +Ro 3:10. *Ps 102:18. Je 30:2. Da 7:1. *Mt 4:4. Jn 19:35. 20:30, **Jn 20:31. aforetime<\/strong>. Jb 8:8. Ga 3:1. Ep 3:3g. Ju 4. for our learning<\/strong>. or, teaching. Note: Rather, “for our instruction.” T#1030. Ro 2:18. 12:7. +*Ps 119:130. +*Is 8:20. Mt 13:44. Mk 1:44. +*Mk 12:24. +*Jn 5:39. **Jn 20:31. 1 Cor 1:5. *1 Cor 10:6, 11. Col 2:17. 1 Tim 1:16. +**2 Tim 3:16. He 10:1. *2 P 1:19. **1 J 5:13. patience<\/strong>. or, patient endurance. FS134, +Mt 3:9. In Hebrew the words “patience” and “hope” would be sabbar<\/em> and subar<\/em>, thus exhibiting the figure Parechesis, or Foreign Paronomasia. +*Ro 2:7. *Ro 5:3-5. 8:24, 25. *Ro 12:12. Ps 119:81-83. +*Lk 8:15. 21:19. *1 Cor 13:4, 5. 2 Cor 6:4-6. 12:12. 1 Th 1:3. 2 Th 1:4. *He 6:10-19. +*He 10:35, 36. *He 13:5, 6. James 1:3. *James 5:7-11. 1 P 1:13. 2:19-23. 2 P 1:6. Re 2:3. 14:12. and comfort<\/strong>. FS93A, +Ge 1:26. T#1051. Ro 8:28. 2 Ch 31:4. 35:2. Jb 5:19. 6:10. 11:16. Ps 27:5. 30:5. 42:5. 103:13. +*Ps 119:50, **52, +**Ps 119:82, 92, 143. 138:7. Is 46:4. 61:3. 63:9. +*Mt 5:4. Jn 14:1-3. Ac 4:36. 15:30, 31. +1 Cor 14:3. 1 Th 3:7. 4:13. James 5:7-11. 1 P 4:12, 13. Re 2:10. 3:10. 7:14-17. 14:13. the scriptures<\/strong>. +Ro 1:2. 16:26. Ps 19:7. +Mt 21:42. 22:29. +*Mk 12:24. +**2 Tim 3:15-17. hope<\/strong>. T#1042. Ro 4:18. 5:2, 4-6. 8:24. 12:12. +*Ps 34:4. *Ps 71:14. +*Ps 119:49, 74, 81, 114, 116. 130:5. +*Pr 3:5. 14:32. Jn 15:16. Ac 23:6. 26:6. 1 Cor 9:10. 13:13. 2 Cor 3:12. Ga 5:5. Ep 1:18. +**Ep 2:12. 4:4. Col 1:5, 23, 27. 1 Th 1:3. 2:19. *1 Th 5:8. +*2 Th 2:16. 1 Tim 1:1. *Titus 1:2. *Titus 2:13. 3:7. *He 3:6. +*He 6:11, 18. 7:19. +*1 P 1:3, 4. +*1 P 3:15. **1 J 3:3.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nugget: Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. My Comment: The Scriptures are designed for comfort. Jesus told us not to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[983,331],"tags":[2110,2114,2111,2115,2112,4,995,996,47,2113],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bible-nuggets","category-what-the-bible-says-about-itself","tag-bible-chapters-about-depression","tag-bible-cure-for-depression","tag-bible-study-guide-real-hope","tag-bible-verses-that-bring-comfort","tag-daily-bible-nugget-199-romans-154","tag-nelsons-cross-reference-guide-to-the-bible","tag-romans-154","tag-romans-154-with-expanded-cross-references","tag-the-new-treasury-of-scripture-knowledge","tag-the-scriptures-designed-for-comfort-romans-154"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}