One of the main jobs of a Bible Believer is to strive to remove old deeds and bad behavior and practice good deeds and good behavior. This is what Messiah meant when he said in Matt 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
And Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Lets take a look at the true meaning of some of these words, to gain an understanding of what Messiah is saying.
In Matt 23:25 The words make clean (Greek concordance# 2511) means cleanse, purge, purify.
The word extortion (G# 724) means ravening, and spoiling.
Luke 11:39 The words make clean are the same (G#2511). Here we see ravening and wickedness at the end of this verse. Ravening (G#724) which means extortion and wickedness (G#4189) malice, plots, sins-iniquity, wickedness.
So we can see that Messiah wants those who believe in him to repent and purge malice and all sorts of other wickedness from themselves.
See the next Blog post for what the Bible considers "good" and "bad".
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