Bible verses explained plainly

Leviticus 19:18Does the Bible say to love your neighbor and hate your enemy?
Leviticus 24:20What does "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" mean in Leviticus 24:20?
Matthew 1:6Why does Matthew 1:6 say "the wife of Uriah"?
Matthew 1:23What does Emmanuel, "God with us," mean in Matthew 1:23?
Matthew 2:2What does Matthew 2:2 say about the star of Bethlehem?
Matthew 4:8-10What does Matthew 4:8-10 mean?
Matthew 5:23-24What does Matthew 5:23-24 mean?
Matthew 5:38What does an eye for an eye mean in Matthew 5:38?
Matthew 5:39What does "turn the other cheek" mean in Matthew 5:39?
Matthew 5:43What does Matthew 5:43 mean?
Matthew 5:44What does "love your enemies" mean in Matthew 5:44?
Matthew 5:45What does Matthew 5:45 mean?
Matthew 6:6What does Matthew 6:6 mean?
Matthew 6:28What does "Consider the lilies of the field" mean?
Matthew 6:29What does Matthew 6:29 mean?
Matthew 6:30What does Matthew 6:30 mean?
Matthew 8:11-12What does Matthew 8:11-12 mean?
Matthew 9:13Why did Jesus say "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice"?
Matthew 10:8What does "freely ye have received, freely give" mean?
Matthew 12:6-7What does Matthew 12:6-7 mean?
Matthew 15:27-28What does Matthew 15:27-28 mean?
Matthew 18:20What does "where two or three are gathered" mean?
Matthew 18:22What does "seventy times seven" mean in Matthew 18:22?
Matthew 21:5Why did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a donkey?
Matthew 21:12Why did Jesus turn over the tables in the temple?
Matthew 23:27What does "whited sepulchres" mean in Matthew 23:27?
Matthew 24:2What does Matthew 24:2 mean?
Matthew 25:41What does "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire" mean?
Matthew 25:45What does "inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these" mean?
Matthew 25:46Does Matthew 25:46 mean hell is eternal torment?
Matthew 26:52What does "all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" mean?
Matthew 27:51What does it mean that the temple veil was torn in two?
Mark 1:41What does Mark 1:41 mean?
Mark 1:44What does Mark 1:44 mean?
Mark 2:24What does Mark 2:24 mean?
Mark 2:27What does "the sabbath was made for man" mean?
Mark 3:4What does Mark 3:4 mean?
Mark 3:5Why was Jesus angry in Mark 3:5?
Mark 5:28What does Mark 5:28 mean?
Mark 5:34What does "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole" mean?
Mark 6:36What does Mark 6:36 mean?
Mark 10:45What does "the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister" mean?
Mark 11:15-16What does Mark 11:15-16 mean?
Mark 11:17What does "a house of prayer for all nations" mean in Mark 11:17?
Mark 12:33-34What does Mark 12:33-34 mean?
Luke 4:22What does Luke 4:22 mean?
Luke 4:23-24What does "No prophet is accepted in his own country" mean?
Luke 4:25-26Who was the widow of Sarepta in Luke 4:26?
Luke 4:27What does Luke 4:27 mean?
Luke 4:28-29Why did the people of Nazareth try to throw Jesus off a cliff?
Luke 9:52-54What does Luke 9:52-54 mean?
Luke 9:54Did Jesus' disciples want to call fire down from heaven?
Luke 9:55-56What does Luke 9:55-56 mean?
Luke 10:29What does Luke 10:29 mean?
Luke 10:33Why did Jesus make a Samaritan the hero of the good Samaritan story?
Luke 10:36-37What does "Go, and do thou likewise" mean in Luke 10:37?
Luke 12:15What does Luke 12:15 mean?
Luke 13:11What does Luke 13:11 mean?
Luke 13:12-13What does Luke 13:12-13 mean?
Luke 13:14Why was the synagogue leader angry in Luke 13:14?
Luke 13:15-16What does Luke 13:15-16 mean?
Luke 13:16What does Luke 13:16 mean?
Luke 15:2What does Luke 15:2 mean?
Luke 15:18-19What does Luke 15:18-19 mean?
Luke 15:20Why did the father run in the story of the prodigal son?
Luke 15:21What does Luke 15:21 mean?
Luke 15:22-24What does Luke 15:22-24 mean?
Luke 15:29What does Luke 15:29 mean?
Luke 15:31What does "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine" mean?
Luke 17:16What does Luke 17:16 mean?
Luke 17:20-21What does "the kingdom of God is within you" mean?
Luke 17:21What does "the kingdom of God is within you" mean in Luke 17:21?
Luke 19:9What does Luke 19:9 mean?
Luke 19:27Did Jesus say "bring hither and slay them before me" in Luke 19:27?
Luke 22:25-26What does Luke 22:25-26 mean?
Luke 22:26What did Jesus mean by "he that is chief, as he that doth serve"?
Luke 22:51What does Luke 22:51 mean?
John 2:3What does John 2:3 mean?
John 2:5What does John 2:5 mean?
John 2:6Why did Jesus use the stone water jars at the wedding in Cana?
John 2:7What does John 2:7 mean?
John 2:10What does John 2:10 mean?
John 2:19-21What did Jesus mean by "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up"?
John 4:9What does John 4:9 mean?
John 4:13-14What does John 4:13-14 mean?
John 4:18What does John 4:18 mean?
John 4:21-24What did Jesus mean when he said to worship "in spirit and in truth"?
John 4:22What does "salvation is of the Jews" mean in John 4:22?
John 4:24What does "God is a Spirit" mean in John 4:24?
John 4:26Who was the first person Jesus told he was the Messiah?
John 4:28-29What does John 4:28-29 mean?
John 4:39What does John 4:39 mean?
John 4:42What does John 4:42 mean?
John 5:10Why was carrying a bed on the Sabbath unlawful in John 5:10?
John 5:17What does "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" mean in John 5:17?
John 6:9What does John 6:9 mean, the boy with five loaves and two fish?
John 6:15What does John 6:15 mean?
John 11:3What does "he whom thou lovest is sick" mean in John 11:3?
John 11:21What does John 11:21 mean?
John 11:25What does "I am the resurrection and the life" mean?
John 11:35Why did Jesus weep at the grave of Lazarus?
John 11:43-44What does "Lazarus, come forth" mean in John 11:43-44?
John 13:1What does "he loved them unto the end" mean in John 13:1?
John 13:4-5What does John 13:4-5 mean?
John 13:8What does John 13:8 mean?
John 13:10What does John 13:10 mean?
John 13:13-14What did Jesus mean when he said "ye also ought to wash one another's feet"?
John 13:16What does "the servant is not greater than his lord" mean in John 13:16?
John 13:17What does John 13:17 mean?
John 18:23What does John 18:23 mean?
John 18:36What does John 18:36 mean?
John 19:19What does John 19:19 mean?
Acts 7:48-49What does "the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands" mean?
Acts 10:34-35What does "God is no respecter of persons" mean in Acts 10:34?
Romans 10:4What does "Christ is the end of the law" mean in Romans 10:4?
2 Corinthians 8:9What does 2 Corinthians 8:9 mean, "though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor"?
Galatians 2:12What does Galatians 2:12 mean?
Colossians 2:14What does Colossians 2:14 mean?
Hebrews 8:13What does Hebrews 8:13 mean?
Hebrews 10:4What does Hebrews 10:4 mean?
2 Peter 2:4What does 2 Peter 2:4 mean?

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