The Horseman, Part 1

During a recent conversation, a man I know stated that, “God was disappointed with Adam and Eve in the garden.” That is to say that God was disappointed that they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.” Genesis 3:6.

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Chaste Conduct Part 1

The next portion in the study of the book of Colossians is chapter 3:18-21 and concerns the relationship between wives and husbands.

However, before we take those passages up it would help to cover the references to wives and husbands in 1 Peter 3:1-7 as sort of a preamble.

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Colossians 2:11-17

“In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.” Colossians 2:11-12.

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