Fifty Difficult Passages Explained

Jay E Adams

• Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781949737578
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Commentary

Some passages in the Bible are hard to understand. Some are commonly misinterpreted because of the failure to translate properly, outmoded language in translations, traditional misunderstandings, or cultural differences. Because many sincere Christians struggle to interpret them, I have decided to offer this book as a help.

In this book, Pastor and Counselor Jay Adams considers fifty commonly misunderstood passages that have repeatedly arisen as he taught and counseled. Not all of his explanations are original. Indeed, if they were, you would have reason to suspect them. But in this book, Adams clarifies complex matters so that searching Christians can understand them.

The goal of this book is that the Bible will be better understood, so that the great truths about the Lord Jesus Christ may be comprehended more fully and, as a consequence, the blessings of these truths may be extended to many.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Gen 2:17 in the day that you eat from it
• Gen 2:24 and the two shall become one flesh
• Gen 4:6, 7 If you do well will you not be accepted?
• Gen 4:17 Cain had relations with his wife
• Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill
• Ex 21:11 if he will not do these three things
• Nu23:19;Gen6:6 It repenteth the Lord
• Ps 2:2 The kings…take their stand…against the Lord
• Ps 34:9 to those who fear Him there is no want
• Ps 51:4 Against You and You only I have sinned
• Prov 23:6, 7 As a man thinketh in his heart
• Prov 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly
• Eccl 9:5 The living know that they will die
• Is 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked
• Mt 5:12, 14, 16 but if you won’t forgive people
• Mt 7:1, 2 Judge not
• Mt 8:22 Let the dead bury the dead
• Mt 19:24 It is easier for a camel to go through
• Mt 25:31–46 you did it to Me
• Mk 3:28–30 Whoever blasphemes against the HS
• Lk 16:8 The lord commended the dishonest steward
• Jn 1:51 angels ascending and descending
• Jn 14:26 He…will teach you everything
• Jn 16:7–11 He will convict the world about sin
• Jn 17:21 That they all may be one
• Jn 20:21–23 Receive the Holy Spirit
• Jn 21:17 He said the third time, ‘Do you care for Me?’
• Ac 9:7; 22:9 Hearing a voice…they heard not
• Ac 17:22 Men of Athens, everything I see shows
• Rom 15:13 abundance of hope by the power of the HS
• I Cor 7:12 To the rest I (not the Lord) say
• I Cor 9:9 It isn’t about oxen that God is concerned
• I Cor 9:27 I myself should be a castaway
• I Cor 13:8–13 When that which is complete comes
• Eph 4:23 Being renewed in the spirit of your mind
• Phil 2:12 Work out your own salvation
• I Th 4:16, 17 we who are alive will be caught up
• I Th 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil
• I Tim 2:3 God our Savior wants all men to be saved
• I Tim 6:10 the love of money is the root of all evil
• Heb 6:4–6 it is impossible to renew again to
• Heb 7:3 Without father or mother or
• Heb 12:17 he found no place of repentance
• Jas 5:14–16 anointing him with oil
• Jas 5:19, 20 The one who brings back a sinner
• I Pet 3:18, 19 He preached to the spirits are in prison
• II Pet 3:9 Not willing that any should perish
• I Jn 2:2 but also for those of the whole world.
• I Jn 3:9 can’t go on sinning…he has been born of God
• I Jn 5:14–17 A sin unto death