Can't remember passage

[Maryam]

First of all… I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

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Ok…now onto my question. A few days ago I was randomly reading a passage in the bible where Christ spoke of keeping a balance in ones faith and something about “the way”. I thought I had written down the verse, but, I obviously didn’t and now in trying to find the verse I can’t remember for the life of me the exact wording or which NT book it was in so I can at least do a search on it. :crying:

If anyone can help me find this verse I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Is it John 14:2-6

In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3] And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
4] And you know the way where I am going."
5] Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”
6] Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
7] If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.”

That is the only place I recall His referring to Himself as **The Way. **However, I don’t see anything about balance there.

 

[Randy_Carson]

And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me. 14However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, 15and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. (Acts 24:13-15)

Probably not the passage you seek…

 

[Maryam]

I think I should have been more clear in my explanation… I know there are MANY places in the NT speaking of the “The Way” as it was called before Christians were called Christians… I did a search of the bible online hoping to come up with what I read before, but didn’t. I just can’t remember in which of the NT books it was where “The Way” was mentioned where I had read about Christ speaking of keeping a balance in ones faith. It’s not specifically [fill in the blank] “The Way”… but I know the keeping a balance part was in in one of the chapters where “The Way” was contained in that NT book… Sigh… oh well I guess I will just have to continue using the search feature for the online bible and read through each instance where the word “way” comes up and hope I find it again.

Thank you Joe and Randy for trying to help. I hope both your Christmas’ was great!

God bless

 

[Todd_Easton]

A few days ago I was randomly reading a passage in the bible where Christ spoke of keeping a balance in ones faith and something about “the way”.

Romans 14 seems to speak of keeping a sort of balance in one’s faith, so as not to cause those who are weak in faith to stumble, and mentions “the way” in verse 13:Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. (Romans 14:13)
Is this what you had in mind?

 

[Maryam]

Romans 14 seems to speak of keeping a sort of balance in one’s faith, so as not to cause those who are weak in faith to stumble, and mentions “the way” in verse 13:Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. (Romans 14:13)Is this what you had in mind?

No, its not the verse, but I thank you for posting. The verse I am trying to remember is more about keeping a balance in ones faith in terms of not going to the extreme… not being too liberal with ones faith nor too conservative… That is the sense I got from it.

Hope your Christmas was great!

God bless

 

[tabcom]

The verse I am trying to remember is … not being too liberal with ones faith nor too conservative… That is the sense I got from it.

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I don’t think you are going to find that sort of message in the bible. :tsktsk:

Try using searchgodsword.org/

It is useful in looking up passages based on words or phrases.**

 

[Maryam]

**I don’t think you are going to find that sort of message in the bible. :tsktsk: **

Try using searchgodsword.org/

It is useful in looking up passages based on words or phrases.

Instead of giving me a finger waving emoticon assuming that I am putting messages contrary to Catholic Church teaching in the bible… Just come out and say it… I prefer things said directly to me.

I am always loyal to the magisterium and teachings of the Church… If I can only find this way to give a sense of what the verse is trying to say how else to do you expect me to say it? As I said before the passage was about trying to keep a balance and not go to the extremes in ones faith… so that would be either too ultra liberal or too conservative… Yes, there it is again… and sorry if you don’t like it… but that is the sense I got from the passage… and I know the words “liberal or conservative” aren’t in the bible and I would think if I am using the word “sense” logic would tell you it is more about the feeling I got and not the actual words in the Bible.

And I am doing a search using the NAB bible from the United States Conference of Bishops website.

Thanks for the (name removed by moderator)ut and emoticon.

God bless

 

[Nita]

Hi Maryam,

A passage that came to my mind is Matthew 11:16-19 where Jesus says:

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He as a demon’; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ "

Will keep thinking about it and see if any others come to mind. If you figure it out, be sure to let us know which passage it is.

Nita

 

[Maryam]

Hi Maryam,

A passage that came to my mind is Matthew 11:16-19 where Jesus says:

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He as a demon’; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ "

Will keep thinking about it and see if any others come to mind. If you figure it out, be sure to let us know which passage it is.

Nita

This passage is pretty good…not the one I was looking for, but is it along the lines of balance. You can see the contrasts in that no matter what John did…whether he came not eating or not drinking how he would still be accused of being a glutton or drunkard. I guess this would be a good passage to showcase the saying “you can’t please all people”.

Some verses I found along the lines of balance, but not the exact verse that I am STILL looking for on balance :crying: are the following were you see the word “temperate” used in terms of how the character of a Bishop, older men and women should be… It’s all along the lines of being “even-tempered”… of keeping a balanced character…

Titus 1:7-9

7 For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, 9 holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.

Titus 2:2

Bid that the older men be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love and in steadfastness.

1 Timothy 3:11

[11] The women likewise must be serious, no slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

So, the search continues… and perhaps the Lord clouded my memory on the verse I am searching for so that I can read my bible more often. Which doesn’t hurt anyone and can only be of benefit to me.

I will let you know for sure when I finally find the verse and SCREAM victory. lol

Thanks for the verse and God bless

 

[tabcom]

It’s all along the lines of being “even-tempered”… of keeping a balanced character…

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The English word temperance does not mean balanced character.**

Titus 1:8

8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled,
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From the original Greek word: Sophron(so’-frone)

a. of a sound mind, sane, in one’s senses
b. curbing one’s desires and impulses, self-controlled, temperate**

Titus 2:2

Bid that the older men be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love and in steadfastness.

1 Timothy 3:11

[11] The women likewise must be serious, no slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

The English word temperate for these two verses is a bad translation of the original Greek word Nephaleos (nay-fal’-eh-os). Which means abstaining from wine.

 

[thommie]

Maryam, could you possibly be thinking of one of the passages where Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6?

Here are two from the Gospel according to Matthew:

" And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast." – Matthew 9:11-15

“At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat. And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only? Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple. And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath. And when he has passed from thence, he came into their synagogues. And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up? How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days. Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other. And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all.” – Matthew 12:1-15

Yours because His,
Thommie

 

[Fergal]

First of all… I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Ok…now onto my question. A few days ago I was randomly reading a passage in the bible where Christ spoke of keeping a balance in ones faith and something about “the way”. I thought I had written down the verse, but, I obviously didn’t and now in trying to find the verse I can’t remember for the life of me the exact wording or which NT book it was in so I can at least do a search on it. :crying:

If anyone can help me find this verse I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all

You know this happens to me all the time. I come across something very relevant and personal and when I go back to look for it, it is as if it was never there!!! Of course it is there but I simply cannot find it no matter how slow or how pedantically I go through it.

I believe that this is God’s way of drawing us in. It will resurface again when you least expect it. God is a giver of surprises!

BTW the only one I can think of that might be of use concerning balance in one’s life is the following:
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt. 16:24-26).

 

[Fergal]

or perhaps from Revelation 3:15-22

15* I *[*R194*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R194)* know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I *[*R195*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R195)* wish that you were cold or hot. **[16](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3:16&sr=1&t=nas)*** So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit F40* you out of My mouth. 17* Because you say, "I [*R196*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R196)* am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, **[18](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3:18&sr=1&t=nas)*** I advise you to buy [*R197*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R197)* from Me gold *[*R198*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R198)* refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white *[*R199*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R199)* garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the *[*R200*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R200)* shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. **[19](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3:19&sr=1&t=nas)*** Those R201* whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. R202 20* Behold, I stand at [*R203*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R203)* the door and knock; *[*R204*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R204)* if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I *[*R205*](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3&t=nas&st=1&new=1&l=en#R205)* will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. **[21](http://www.searchgodsword.org/desk/?query=re+3:21&sr=1&t=nas)*** He R206* who overcomes, I will grant to him to R207 sit down with Me on My throne, as I R208 also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22* `He R209* who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ " *

After that I am lost!!!

 

[Ruthie]

Could it be 1 Cor 8?

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7 However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. 9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
1 Cor 8:1-13 (NASB)

 

[tabcom]

balance in one’s life is the following:

Matt. 16:24-26
Revelation 3:15-22
1 Cor 8

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Matt. 16:24-26 and its related verse in Luke 9:23 are not talking about maintaining balance in one’s life. They are both claiming the complete opposite!
Dying to your old sinful self and coming alive in Christ is the context of these verses.

Revelation 3:15-22: John is reprimanding the church at Laodicea for being complacient.

1 Cor 8:78: Paul is instructioning believers to avoid partaking in food that was sacrificed to idol gods, if it is seen by a baby believer and causes them to become confused and question their faith in Christ.

Humbly submitted.
**