Once saved, always saved? Here King David asks God not to take the Holy Spirit from him because he committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed. This is part of his repentance prayer. He is asking God for forgiveness. Once God takes away the Holy Spirit from the believer he does not have…
Based on the previous verses (Romans 5:1,2) “this” in “And not only this” refers to “we exult in hope of the glory of God” for having peace with God because the believer is justified (declared innocent) by faith (in Jesus Christ and the atonement for sin He accomplished on the cross) and has been introduced…
This verse comes from what is considered traditionally as the last epistle the apostle Paul wrote before he died. He was suffering in chains as a prisoner in Rome (1:17,2:9) and some believers were ashamed to associate with him for being in prison for the Gospel (1:8,15-18). We can say this was a kind of…