This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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8364 | But how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord? |
37345 | Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people, and unwise? |
37345 | Do you remember what the Gospel did for you? 37345 Grace"--what is that? |
37345 | He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he lovehis brother"whom he hath not seen?" |
37345 | If the eye were not sunlike how could it see the sun? |
37345 | Lord, to whom shall we go? 37345 Mortify_ therefore_"--wherefore? |
37345 | The fulness--what fulness? |
37345 | To whom shall we go? 37345 Was Paul crucified for you?" |
37345 | Who hath first given, and it shall be recompensed to him again? |
37345 | Ye did run well, what hath hindered you? |
37345 | A very misplaced and cruel tenderness it is to say"would you like?" |
37345 | And are these not the habitual temper of multitudes? |
37345 | And did not Paul learn the spirit that suggested them from his own experience of how Christ treated him? |
37345 | And have these truths become less precious because familiar? |
37345 | And how, replies my saddened heart, can I become a new creature? |
37345 | And how, says my despairing conscience, shall I keep the commandments? |
37345 | And what are they? |
37345 | And what does he desire for this inward man? |
37345 | And what exalted mission is destined for this wonderful communicated strength? |
37345 | And what is sure to follow such mistreatment by father or mother? |
37345 | And what of the husband''s duty? |
37345 | And what shall we say of Christian men and women, who can talk animatedly and interestingly of anything but of their Saviour and His kingdom? |
37345 | And when the king_ has_ come, where are the heralds? |
37345 | Are the two pictures inconsistent? |
37345 | Are they not the elements of Christ''s pleading with His friends? |
37345 | Are we ready to crown Him Lord of all? |
37345 | Are we trying, with His help, to live as children of the light? |
37345 | As if he had said-- Do you want any further rite to express that mighty change which passed on you when you came to be"in Christ"? |
37345 | At what time? |
37345 | Believest thou this?" |
37345 | Besides, where did you get the faculties you plume yourself on? |
37345 | But he backs up this highest reason with these others:"If you hesitate to take him back because you ought, will you do it because I ask you? |
37345 | But how could he, in Rome, wage conflict on behalf of the Church at Colossæ? |
37345 | But if they were not intended to go to Jerusalem, why did they meet him at all? |
37345 | But is it a Christian''s duty to make his speech always agreeable? |
37345 | But what is"the Epistle from Laodicea"which the Colossians are to be sure to get and to read? |
37345 | But what was this"Church in the house"? |
37345 | Can the master fail to take him as if he were Paul? |
37345 | Can we each say-- I live by Him, in Him, and for Him? |
37345 | Did He not say on the cross,"It is finished"? |
37345 | Did anybody else ever say,"Put that on mine account"? |
37345 | Did it not deliver you from your burden? |
37345 | Did it not make earth as the very portals of heaven? |
37345 | Did it not set new hope before you? |
37345 | Do I say that I am a Christian? |
37345 | Do not these words go much deeper than this small matter? |
37345 | Do our hearts leap up with a joyful Amen when we read these great words of this text? |
37345 | Do they ever dream of speaking to one another outside? |
37345 | Do we come to his words, believing that we hear God speaking through Paul? |
37345 | Do we crave a stay for our spirit, guidance and impulse for our lives? |
37345 | Do we desire to be good? |
37345 | Do we face the question fairly-- what theory of the person of Jesus Christ explains that fact? |
37345 | Do we live in Him, by Him, with Him, for Him? |
37345 | Do we look longingly for some light on the future? |
37345 | Do we need a quieting balm to be laid on conscience, and the sense of guilt to be lifted from our hearts? |
37345 | Do we not all know that subtly approaching languor? |
37345 | Do we profess to trust Christ? |
37345 | Do we seek to know God? |
37345 | Do we thus show and consecrate our family loves and our friendships? |
37345 | Do we trust ourselves to Him? |
37345 | Does it? |
37345 | Does not Christ speak to us in the same language? |
37345 | Does not then that figure stand forth a living illustration of the_ transforming_ power of Christianity? |
37345 | Does not this action of Paul remind us of the highest example of a similar use of motives of personal attachment as aids to duty? |
37345 | Does our love speak in prayer? |
37345 | Does the introduction of this thought of the master''s Master in heaven, take away any of the vagueness? |
37345 | Each man has to ask himself, Am I reconciled to God? |
37345 | Had Christ''s work, then, no higher issue than to leave religion bound in the cords of outward observances? |
37345 | Had they been carried into that inmost depth of union with Him, and were they still to be laying stress on ceremonies? |
37345 | Handle not, nor taste, nor touch( all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? |
37345 | Has the sight of His great love on the cross won_ me_, body and soul, to His love and service? |
37345 | Have I flung away self- will, pride and enmity, and yielded myself a glad captive to the loving Christ who died? |
37345 | Have we these signs of love to God? |
37345 | How can a soul possess God, and find its heaven in possessing Him? |
37345 | How can any true, noble Christian life be lived without continuous effort and continual strife? |
37345 | How can it abide in the heart? |
37345 | How can such a precept be obeyed? |
37345 | How can the peace of Christ do that for us? |
37345 | How can we be shaping our efforts to reach a good which we have not clearly before our imaginations as desirable? |
37345 | How could he do so? |
37345 | How do parents provoke their children? |
37345 | How do we expect to be then"found of Him in peace, without spot and blameless"? |
37345 | How many respectable middle- aged gentlemen are now mainly devoted to making money, whose youth was foul with sensual indulgence? |
37345 | How much less powerful is Christ''s, even with those who love Him best? |
37345 | How old was he? |
37345 | However cultivated by yourself, how came they yours at first? |
37345 | I would fain press on every conscience the sharp- pointed appeal-- What is this Christ to us? |
37345 | If He be the one sole temple of Deity in whom all Divine glories are stored, why go anywhere else in order to_ see_ or to_ possess_ God? |
37345 | If baptism be immersion, and immersion express a substantial part of its meaning, can sprinkling or pouring be baptism? |
37345 | If so, two questions deserve consideration-- first, is it right to alter a form which has a meaning that is lost by the change? |
37345 | If that bit of iron were gone, what would become of the rudder, and what would be the use of the ship with all her guns? |
37345 | Is Christ our life, its source, its strength, its aim, its motive? |
37345 | Is He our head, to fill us with vitality, to inspire and to command? |
37345 | Is He the goal and the end of our individual life? |
37345 | Is He_ any_ thing to us but a name? |
37345 | Is it allowable to say that the hope which is laid up in heaven is in any sense a reason or motive for brotherly love? |
37345 | Is it fitting for men who have died with Christ to this fleeting world, to make so much of its perishable things? |
37345 | Is it lost? |
37345 | Is it not beautiful that the series should begin with_ pity_? |
37345 | Is it not the most absolute of rules? |
37345 | Is it the pattern for our lives? |
37345 | Is not the kingdom of Jesus Christ based on His becoming a brother and one of ourselves, and is it not wielded in gentleness and enforced by love? |
37345 | Is the hope the reason for the Apostle''s thanksgiving, or the reason in some sense of the Colossians''love? |
37345 | Is the new thing rightly called by the old name? |
37345 | Is"law"then become our"enemy because it tells us the truth?" |
37345 | It may be asked-- does Christianity then only lay down such plain precepts? |
37345 | Its cry to all these"commandments and ordinances of men"is,"Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?" |
37345 | May we not venture to see shining through the Apostle''s words the Master''s face? |
37345 | Now we may say,"What does all this matter to us? |
37345 | One can fancy some Colossians saying,"What need is there for all this anxiety? |
37345 | So the question comes home to each of us-- am I living by my union with Christ? |
37345 | So the question of questions for us all is, What think ye of Christ? |
37345 | Some may say, Well, what in the world does it matter where Archippus worked? |
37345 | Sown in weakness, will they not be raised in power? |
37345 | Such being the force of this statement, what is its bearing on the Apostle''s purpose? |
37345 | That grips tight enough, does it not? |
37345 | That is precise enough, is it not? |
37345 | That would be indeed to build a castle on the air, a palace on a soap- bubble, would it not? |
37345 | The old question,"Who shall stand in the Holy Place?" |
37345 | The one all- important question for us is-- does our Christianity_ work_? |
37345 | The one is,"What hast thou that thou hast not received?" |
37345 | The question may well be asked-- is that a type of character which the world generally admires? |
37345 | Then does Christianity sanction slavery? |
37345 | Then how do we repay that costly purchase? |
37345 | This rod has budded, at all events; have any of its antagonists''rods done the same? |
37345 | To that highest hope and ultimate vision for the whole creation, who will not say, Amen? |
37345 | To what end were the Colossians knit to Him by a tie so strong, tender and strange? |
37345 | To what shall we die if we are Christians? |
37345 | Translate that image of taking Christ for our foundation into plain English, and what does it come to? |
37345 | Under which king, my brother? |
37345 | Was Paul''s love the only one that we know of which took the slave''s debts on itself? |
37345 | Was then the prayer for him refused? |
37345 | We shall never understand our sorrows, unless we try to answer the question, What good to others is meant to come through me by this? |
37345 | We should ask ourselves, Do we make it our ever present object to satisfy Jesus Christ? |
37345 | What becomes of the ridges of sand that separate pool from pool at low water? |
37345 | What becomes of them? |
37345 | What can you want with the less significant rite when you have the more significant? |
37345 | What connection has the figure of stripping off a garment with that of a conqueror in his triumphal procession? |
37345 | What could he mean by"do more than I say"? |
37345 | What did he see? |
37345 | What do we mean when we talk of an old man being dead to youthful passions or follies or ambitions? |
37345 | What does it avail that God is in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, if I am unconscious of the enmity, and careless of the friendship? |
37345 | What does it matter who praise, if He frowns? |
37345 | What does the incongruity matter to Paul as the stream of thought and feeling hurries him along? |
37345 | What features of the system are referred to in this phrase? |
37345 | What for? |
37345 | What had Jesus Christ come from heaven for, and for what had He borne His bitter passion? |
37345 | What had happened? |
37345 | What have big and little to do with things which are equally indispensable? |
37345 | What is prayer? |
37345 | What is the difference between"walking"and"living"in these things? |
37345 | What is the right hand of God but the activity of His power? |
37345 | What is the use of perpetually saying to people, Be good, be good? |
37345 | What is the use of writing letters, if you can not get them delivered? |
37345 | What manner of prayer can that be which is to be continuous through a life that must needs be full of toil on outward things? |
37345 | What need was there of all that prelude of mysterious doctrines, if we are only to be landed at last in such elementary and obvious moralities? |
37345 | What then has become of this letter? |
37345 | Where are its sister Churches of Asia? |
37345 | Where did Paul learn this deep lesson, that the sufferings of Christ''s servants were Christ''s sufferings? |
37345 | Where is it now? |
37345 | Where then is there a place for the shadowy abstractions and emanations with which some would bind together God and man? |
37345 | Whose house? |
37345 | Why did not Paul send it quietly in this Epistle instead of letting a whole Church know of it? |
37345 | Why does the Apostle use this apparently needless exuberance of language--"the body of His flesh"? |
37345 | Why is the memory of Christ''s death so unlike the memory of Paul''s chains? |
37345 | Why is the one merely for the play of sympathy, and the enforcement of his teaching, and the other the very centre of our religion? |
37345 | Why pit the parent against the child? |
37345 | Why should I scowl back at him, though he frowns at me? |
37345 | Why should Paul be in such a taking about us? |
37345 | Why should one man be for ever speaking, and hundreds of people who are able to teach, sitting dumb to listen or pretend to listen to him? |
37345 | Why should such sudden change be regarded as impossible? |
37345 | Why should we go on a weary search after goodly pearls when the richest of all is by us, if we will have it? |
37345 | Why should we leave the fountain of living waters to hew out for ourselves, with infinite pains, broken cisterns that can hold no water? |
37345 | Why then did not Christ and His apostles make war against slavery? |
37345 | Why, but because they do not do with this word, what all students do with the studies which they love? |
37345 | Will anything but the gospel give us that? |
37345 | Will you do it for My sake?" |
37345 | You have been baptised, does not that express all the meaning that circumcision ever had, and much more? |
37345 | You may say that is the whole question, whether the gospel is such a word? |
37345 | and do our prayers for our dear ones plead chiefly for such gifts? |
37345 | and have we not often caught ourselves in the very act of falling asleep at our prayers? |
37345 | and if that which threw the shadow forward through the ages has arrived, how shall the shadow be visible too? |
37345 | and when the reality has come, who wants symbols? |
37345 | and, before you answer that question, will you remember my age, and what I am bearing for the Master?" |
37345 | do I draw from Him that better being which He is longing to pour into my withered, dead spirit? |
37345 | must we doff the robes of peace to don the armour, or put off the armour to resume the robes of peace? |
37345 | or who blame, if His face lights with a smile? |
37345 | second, can we alter a significant form without destroying it? |
37345 | the other is,"Who is pure before God''s judgment- seat?" |
37345 | why wrench the blossom from its stem? |