Quotes about Meaning
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
— Acts 17:20
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
— Romans 11:15
Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
— 1 Corinthians 9:8
So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.
— 1 Corinthians 14:9
Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
— 1 Corinthians 14:10
If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.
— 1 Corinthians 14:11
Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
— 1 Corinthians 14:22
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
— 1 Corinthians 15:2
The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
— 1 Corinthians 15:46
Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.
— 2 Corinthians 10:1
Did I exploit you by anyone I sent you?
— 2 Corinthians 12:17
What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
— Galatians 3:17