{"id":221,"date":"2012-11-16T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:44:27","slug":"gods-word-is-law-love-light-lamp-instruction-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gods-word-is-law-love-light-lamp-instruction-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Word is Law, Love, Light, Lamp, Instruction, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible is given to all people, but some grab hold while others let it slip away. To believers every word from God is love, light, life, a lamp, instruction, law, commands, judgments, teaching, ways, wisdom and truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Love\u2014John 12-14, 15:10.<br \/>\n\u2022 Light and lamp\u2014Proverbs 6:23; Psalm 119:105; Isaiah 8:20; Revelation 21:23, 22:5.<br \/>\n\u2022 Life\u2014Deuteronomy 4:1, 32:46-47; Proverbs 8:32-36; Matthew 19:16, 17.<br \/>\n\u2022 Instructions\u2014Isaiah 1:10; Exodus 16:4 24:12; Jeremiah 35:13; Job 22:22, 36:10; Psalm 78:1; Zephaniah 3:1-7; Malachi 2:1-9; Proverbs 1:2,3,7,8 4:1,2; Romans 15:4; Ephesians 6:4; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 5:12; 2 Tim 4:2.<br \/>\n\u2022 Law\u2014Jeremiah 6:18-19; Zechariah 7:12; Deut 5:5, 17:11, 27:1-3, 26, 30:10,14, 32:46,47; John 15:25; Acts 6:2-4,7 13:44,48,49, 28:23; Romans 9:28,31,32; 1 Corinthians 15:2; Galatians 5:14.<br \/>\n\u2022 Commands, judgments, teachings &#038; ways\u2014Isaiah 2:3; Proverbs 5:12, 7:2, 8:10, 1:8, 4:2, 3:1, 6:20-23; Jeremiah 32:33; Deuteronomy 4:1; 2 Chronicles 15:1-7; Matthew 4:23, 7:28,29, 9:35, 13:54, 15:9, 28:20; Acts 2:42, 4:2, 18:11; Romans 12:7; 1 Corinthians 14:26.<br \/>\n\u2022 Wisdom and truth\u2014Psalm 119:43,44,142, 138:2; Proverbs 23:23; Malachi 2:6; 1 Kings 2:3-4; John 17:17, 18:37-38, 8:31-32; James 1:18, 21-23,25.<\/p>\n<p>Everything God says could be described by any of these terms. \u2018Law\u2019 is \u2018instruction\u2019 and also a \u2018lamp\u2019 and \u2018light.\u2019 \u2018Wisdom\u2019 and \u2018truth\u2019 is also \u2018love\u2019 and \u2018life.\u2019 Some people separate His Words into cubbyholes. They think that somehow a word from Him that is \u2018Law\u2019 is not \u2018love,\u2019 or that a word that is a \u2018lamp\u2019 is not \u2018Law.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible is given to all people, but some grab hold while others let it slip away. To believers every word from God is love, light, life, a lamp, instruction, law, commands, judgments, teaching, ways, wisdom and truth. \u2022 Love\u2014John &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gods-word-is-law-love-light-lamp-instruction-etc\/\">read more<span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,19,108,96],"tags":[175,177,176,178,99,174,173,172,179,182,180,181],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-daily-living","category-law-2","category-whole-bible-christianity-book","tag-a-lamp","tag-commands","tag-instruction","tag-judgments","tag-law","tag-life","tag-light","tag-love","tag-teaching","tag-truth","tag-ways","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}