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proper for women professing godliness, with Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the
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good works. Let a woman learn in silence with woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
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all submission. And I do not permit a woman to 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing
teach or to have authority over a man, but to be if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with
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in silence. For Adam was formed first, then self-control.

2:1 supplications. The Greek word is from a 2:9 adorn…modest apparel. The Greek word
root that means “to lack,”“to be deprived,”or “to for “adorn”means “to arrange,”“to put in order,”
be without.” Thus this kind of prayer occurs or “to make ready.”A woman is to arrange her-
because of a need. The lost have a great need self appropriately for the worship service,
for salvation, and believers should always be which includes wearing decent clothing which
asking God to meet that need. intercessions. reflects a properly adorned chaste heart. pro-
This word comes from a root meaning “to fall in priety and moderation. The Greek word for
with someone” or “to draw near so as to speak “propriety” refers to modesty mixed with
intimately.” The verb from which this word humility, which carries the underlying idea of
derives is used of Christ’s and the Spirit’s inter- shame. It can also refer to a rejection of any-
cession for believers (Rom. 8:26; Heb. 7:25). thing dishonorable to God or to grief over sin.
Paul’s desire is for the Ephesian Christians to “Moderation” basically refers to self-control
have compassion for the lost,to understand the over sexual passions. Godly women hate sin
depths of their pain and misery, and to come and control their passions so as not to lead
intimately to God pleading for their salvation. another into sin.

DAY 23:What is the “New Covenant”in Jeremiah 31:31–34?

God announced here the coming establishment of a New Covenant with His people. This
covenant will be different from the one “I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke.”The New Covenant is
given in these terms:“I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their
God, and they shall be My people.”
The fulfillment of this New Covenant was to individuals, as well as to Israel as a nation (v. 36;
Rom.11:16–27).It is set 1) in the framework of a reestablishment in their land (vv.38–40 and chaps.
30–33) and 2) in the time after the ultimate difficulty (30:7).
In principle,this covenant,also announced by Jesus Christ (Luke 22:20),began to be exercised
with spiritual aspects realized for Jewish and Gentile believers in the church era (1 Cor. 11:25; Heb.
8:7–13; 9:15; 10:14–17; 12:24; 13:20). It has already begun to take effect with “a remnant according
to the election of grace”(Rom. 11:5).The New Covenant will be also realized by the people of Israel
in the last days, including the regathering to their ancient land, Palestine (chaps. 30–33). The
streams of the Abrahamic,Davidic,and New Covenants find their confluence in the millennial king-
dom ruled over by the Messiah.

concerning the houses of this city and the hous-
OCTOBER 24 es of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled
down to fortify against the siege mounds and
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the sword: ‘They come to fight with the
Jeremiah 33:1–34:22
Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with the
Moreover the word of the LORD came to dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My
33 Jeremiah a second time, while he was anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I
still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, have hidden My face from this city. Behold, I
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“Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD will bring it health and healing; I will heal them
who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His and reveal to them the abundance of peace and
name): ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah and
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show you great and mighty things, which you the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild
do not know.’ those places as at the first. I will cleanse them
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“For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, from all their iniquity by which they have
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