Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
8364	But how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?
37345	Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people, and unwise?
37345	Do you remember what the Gospel did for you? 37345 Grace"--what is that?
37345	He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he lovehis brother"whom he hath not seen?"
37345	If the eye were not sunlike how could it see the sun?
37345	Lord, to whom shall we go? 37345 Mortify_ therefore_"--wherefore?
37345	The fulness--what fulness?
37345	To whom shall we go? 37345 Was Paul crucified for you?"
37345	Who hath first given, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
37345	Ye did run well, what hath hindered you?
37345	A very misplaced and cruel tenderness it is to say"would you like?"
37345	And are these not the habitual temper of multitudes?
37345	And did not Paul learn the spirit that suggested them from his own experience of how Christ treated him?
37345	And have these truths become less precious because familiar?
37345	And how, replies my saddened heart, can I become a new creature?
37345	And how, says my despairing conscience, shall I keep the commandments?
37345	And what are they?
37345	And what does he desire for this inward man?
37345	And what exalted mission is destined for this wonderful communicated strength?
37345	And what is sure to follow such mistreatment by father or mother?
37345	And what of the husband''s duty?
37345	And what shall we say of Christian men and women, who can talk animatedly and interestingly of anything but of their Saviour and His kingdom?
37345	And when the king_ has_ come, where are the heralds?
37345	Are the two pictures inconsistent?
37345	Are they not the elements of Christ''s pleading with His friends?
37345	Are we ready to crown Him Lord of all?
37345	Are we trying, with His help, to live as children of the light?
37345	As if he had said-- Do you want any further rite to express that mighty change which passed on you when you came to be"in Christ"?
37345	At what time?
37345	Believest thou this?"
37345	Besides, where did you get the faculties you plume yourself on?
37345	But he backs up this highest reason with these others:"If you hesitate to take him back because you ought, will you do it because I ask you?
37345	But how could he, in Rome, wage conflict on behalf of the Church at Colossæ?
37345	But if they were not intended to go to Jerusalem, why did they meet him at all?
37345	But is it a Christian''s duty to make his speech always agreeable?
37345	But what is"the Epistle from Laodicea"which the Colossians are to be sure to get and to read?
37345	But what was this"Church in the house"?
37345	Can the master fail to take him as if he were Paul?
37345	Can we each say-- I live by Him, in Him, and for Him?
37345	Did He not say on the cross,"It is finished"?
37345	Did anybody else ever say,"Put that on mine account"?
37345	Did it not deliver you from your burden?
37345	Did it not make earth as the very portals of heaven?
37345	Did it not set new hope before you?
37345	Do I say that I am a Christian?
37345	Do not these words go much deeper than this small matter?
37345	Do our hearts leap up with a joyful Amen when we read these great words of this text?
37345	Do they ever dream of speaking to one another outside?
37345	Do we come to his words, believing that we hear God speaking through Paul?
37345	Do we crave a stay for our spirit, guidance and impulse for our lives?
37345	Do we desire to be good?
37345	Do we face the question fairly-- what theory of the person of Jesus Christ explains that fact?
37345	Do we live in Him, by Him, with Him, for Him?
37345	Do we look longingly for some light on the future?
37345	Do we need a quieting balm to be laid on conscience, and the sense of guilt to be lifted from our hearts?
37345	Do we not all know that subtly approaching languor?
37345	Do we profess to trust Christ?
37345	Do we seek to know God?
37345	Do we thus show and consecrate our family loves and our friendships?
37345	Do we trust ourselves to Him?
37345	Does it?
37345	Does not Christ speak to us in the same language?
37345	Does not then that figure stand forth a living illustration of the_ transforming_ power of Christianity?
37345	Does not this action of Paul remind us of the highest example of a similar use of motives of personal attachment as aids to duty?
37345	Does our love speak in prayer?
37345	Does the introduction of this thought of the master''s Master in heaven, take away any of the vagueness?
37345	Each man has to ask himself, Am I reconciled to God?
37345	Had Christ''s work, then, no higher issue than to leave religion bound in the cords of outward observances?
37345	Had they been carried into that inmost depth of union with Him, and were they still to be laying stress on ceremonies?
37345	Handle not, nor taste, nor touch( all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?
37345	Has the sight of His great love on the cross won_ me_, body and soul, to His love and service?
37345	Have I flung away self- will, pride and enmity, and yielded myself a glad captive to the loving Christ who died?
37345	Have we these signs of love to God?
37345	How can a soul possess God, and find its heaven in possessing Him?
37345	How can any true, noble Christian life be lived without continuous effort and continual strife?
37345	How can it abide in the heart?
37345	How can such a precept be obeyed?
37345	How can the peace of Christ do that for us?
37345	How can we be shaping our efforts to reach a good which we have not clearly before our imaginations as desirable?
37345	How could he do so?
37345	How do parents provoke their children?
37345	How do we expect to be then"found of Him in peace, without spot and blameless"?
37345	How many respectable middle- aged gentlemen are now mainly devoted to making money, whose youth was foul with sensual indulgence?
37345	How much less powerful is Christ''s, even with those who love Him best?
37345	How old was he?
37345	However cultivated by yourself, how came they yours at first?
37345	I would fain press on every conscience the sharp- pointed appeal-- What is this Christ to us?
37345	If He be the one sole temple of Deity in whom all Divine glories are stored, why go anywhere else in order to_ see_ or to_ possess_ God?
37345	If baptism be immersion, and immersion express a substantial part of its meaning, can sprinkling or pouring be baptism?
37345	If so, two questions deserve consideration-- first, is it right to alter a form which has a meaning that is lost by the change?
37345	If that bit of iron were gone, what would become of the rudder, and what would be the use of the ship with all her guns?
37345	Is Christ our life, its source, its strength, its aim, its motive?
37345	Is He our head, to fill us with vitality, to inspire and to command?
37345	Is He the goal and the end of our individual life?
37345	Is He_ any_ thing to us but a name?
37345	Is it allowable to say that the hope which is laid up in heaven is in any sense a reason or motive for brotherly love?
37345	Is it fitting for men who have died with Christ to this fleeting world, to make so much of its perishable things?
37345	Is it lost?
37345	Is it not beautiful that the series should begin with_ pity_?
37345	Is it not the most absolute of rules?
37345	Is it the pattern for our lives?
37345	Is not the kingdom of Jesus Christ based on His becoming a brother and one of ourselves, and is it not wielded in gentleness and enforced by love?
37345	Is the hope the reason for the Apostle''s thanksgiving, or the reason in some sense of the Colossians''love?
37345	Is the new thing rightly called by the old name?
37345	Is"law"then become our"enemy because it tells us the truth?"
37345	It may be asked-- does Christianity then only lay down such plain precepts?
37345	Its cry to all these"commandments and ordinances of men"is,"Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?"
37345	May we not venture to see shining through the Apostle''s words the Master''s face?
37345	Now we may say,"What does all this matter to us?
37345	One can fancy some Colossians saying,"What need is there for all this anxiety?
37345	So the question comes home to each of us-- am I living by my union with Christ?
37345	So the question of questions for us all is, What think ye of Christ?
37345	Some may say, Well, what in the world does it matter where Archippus worked?
37345	Sown in weakness, will they not be raised in power?
37345	Such being the force of this statement, what is its bearing on the Apostle''s purpose?
37345	That grips tight enough, does it not?
37345	That is precise enough, is it not?
37345	That would be indeed to build a castle on the air, a palace on a soap- bubble, would it not?
37345	The old question,"Who shall stand in the Holy Place?"
37345	The one all- important question for us is-- does our Christianity_ work_?
37345	The one is,"What hast thou that thou hast not received?"
37345	The question may well be asked-- is that a type of character which the world generally admires?
37345	Then does Christianity sanction slavery?
37345	Then how do we repay that costly purchase?
37345	This rod has budded, at all events; have any of its antagonists''rods done the same?
37345	To that highest hope and ultimate vision for the whole creation, who will not say, Amen?
37345	To what end were the Colossians knit to Him by a tie so strong, tender and strange?
37345	To what shall we die if we are Christians?
37345	Translate that image of taking Christ for our foundation into plain English, and what does it come to?
37345	Under which king, my brother?
37345	Was Paul''s love the only one that we know of which took the slave''s debts on itself?
37345	Was then the prayer for him refused?
37345	We shall never understand our sorrows, unless we try to answer the question, What good to others is meant to come through me by this?
37345	We should ask ourselves, Do we make it our ever present object to satisfy Jesus Christ?
37345	What becomes of the ridges of sand that separate pool from pool at low water?
37345	What becomes of them?
37345	What can you want with the less significant rite when you have the more significant?
37345	What connection has the figure of stripping off a garment with that of a conqueror in his triumphal procession?
37345	What could he mean by"do more than I say"?
37345	What did he see?
37345	What do we mean when we talk of an old man being dead to youthful passions or follies or ambitions?
37345	What does it avail that God is in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, if I am unconscious of the enmity, and careless of the friendship?
37345	What does it matter who praise, if He frowns?
37345	What does the incongruity matter to Paul as the stream of thought and feeling hurries him along?
37345	What features of the system are referred to in this phrase?
37345	What for?
37345	What had Jesus Christ come from heaven for, and for what had He borne His bitter passion?
37345	What had happened?
37345	What have big and little to do with things which are equally indispensable?
37345	What is prayer?
37345	What is the difference between"walking"and"living"in these things?
37345	What is the right hand of God but the activity of His power?
37345	What is the use of perpetually saying to people, Be good, be good?
37345	What is the use of writing letters, if you can not get them delivered?
37345	What manner of prayer can that be which is to be continuous through a life that must needs be full of toil on outward things?
37345	What need was there of all that prelude of mysterious doctrines, if we are only to be landed at last in such elementary and obvious moralities?
37345	What then has become of this letter?
37345	Where are its sister Churches of Asia?
37345	Where did Paul learn this deep lesson, that the sufferings of Christ''s servants were Christ''s sufferings?
37345	Where is it now?
37345	Where then is there a place for the shadowy abstractions and emanations with which some would bind together God and man?
37345	Whose house?
37345	Why did not Paul send it quietly in this Epistle instead of letting a whole Church know of it?
37345	Why does the Apostle use this apparently needless exuberance of language--"the body of His flesh"?
37345	Why is the memory of Christ''s death so unlike the memory of Paul''s chains?
37345	Why is the one merely for the play of sympathy, and the enforcement of his teaching, and the other the very centre of our religion?
37345	Why pit the parent against the child?
37345	Why should I scowl back at him, though he frowns at me?
37345	Why should Paul be in such a taking about us?
37345	Why should one man be for ever speaking, and hundreds of people who are able to teach, sitting dumb to listen or pretend to listen to him?
37345	Why should such sudden change be regarded as impossible?
37345	Why should we go on a weary search after goodly pearls when the richest of all is by us, if we will have it?
37345	Why should we leave the fountain of living waters to hew out for ourselves, with infinite pains, broken cisterns that can hold no water?
37345	Why then did not Christ and His apostles make war against slavery?
37345	Why, but because they do not do with this word, what all students do with the studies which they love?
37345	Will anything but the gospel give us that?
37345	Will you do it for My sake?"
37345	You have been baptised, does not that express all the meaning that circumcision ever had, and much more?
37345	You may say that is the whole question, whether the gospel is such a word?
37345	and do our prayers for our dear ones plead chiefly for such gifts?
37345	and have we not often caught ourselves in the very act of falling asleep at our prayers?
37345	and if that which threw the shadow forward through the ages has arrived, how shall the shadow be visible too?
37345	and when the reality has come, who wants symbols?
37345	and, before you answer that question, will you remember my age, and what I am bearing for the Master?"
37345	do I draw from Him that better being which He is longing to pour into my withered, dead spirit?
37345	must we doff the robes of peace to don the armour, or put off the armour to resume the robes of peace?
37345	or who blame, if His face lights with a smile?
37345	second, can we alter a significant form without destroying it?
37345	the other is,"Who is pure before God''s judgment- seat?"
37345	why wrench the blossom from its stem?