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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter L, section Labour to Lawlessness. (The other sections under L are Lay to Leviticus, Lia Fail to Loukas and Love to Lystra.)

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Labour, labourer, labourers, labours

• Acts 20:34-35 – Paul to the elders from Ephesus: "I have shown you in everything, by labouring like this, that we must support the infirm". What did Paul mean by that? → em02c.htm
• On 1 Thessalonians 5:12 and the translation "and we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you". → em07b.htm
• 1 Thessalonians 2:9, "for you remember, brothers, our labour and travail, for night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God". → em06d.htm
• On 1 Thessalonians 5:12 and the translation "and we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you". → em07b.htm
• 2 Thessalonians 3:7-8, "For you know well how you ought to imitate our example. You know that we did not live idle lives among you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it. Instead, with labour and hardship we kept working night and day so that we might not be a burden to any of you." → em08c.htm – em06d.htm
• On 1 Timothy 5:17 and the translation "let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine". → em07b.htm
• 1 Timothy 5:17 – what did Paul really mean by the words "the labourer is worthy of his reward"? → em07b.htm
• 2 Thessalonians 3:7-8, "For you yourselves know how it is right to act like us, because we were not disorderly among you; nor did we eat bread from anyone as a gift, but by labour and toil, working night and day in order not to burden anyone of you." → em03c.htm – em05e.htm – em04c.htm – em06d.htm
• 1 Timothy 5:18, "the labourer is worthy of his reward" – what did Paul really mean? → em07b.htm – em05e.htm
• 2 Timothy 2:6 – what did Paul mean when he wrote, "the farmer must labour, before he can receive the fruits"? → em08c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Lack, lacked, lacking, lacks

• Mark 10:21, "Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing is lacking to you. Go, sell what things you have, and give to the poor. And you will have treasure in Heaven." → eb13e.htm – em07b.htm
• Acts 4:34, "Nor was there anyone among them who lacked, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold". → em07b.htm
• Hebrews 12:15, "watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God". → ea12c.htm
• James 1:5, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God". → eb11c.htm
• James 1:6 is not about "lack of faith". → eb10b.htm
• Regarding the Anglo-Israelist claim that the line of David the king of Israel ("the house of David") would never, from the days of David and onward, "lack a man on the throne of Israel". This essay takes a closer look at what the Bible really says. → ey12b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Laikos → es06d.htm – es07c.htm

Laity and clergy

• The concepts "laity" and "clergy". → es07c.htm – ea08b.htm – em01d.htm
• The "clergy claim". → es07c.htm – em01d.htm – ea08b.htm
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Lambanô

• On the word lambanô (lambanein) in Acts 20:35 – on what the apostle Paul really meant when he said to certain elders, makarion estin didonai mallon ê lambanein, "it is more blessed to give than to receive". → em02c.htm
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Lamb, lambs

• The Passover lambs were to be killed "between the evenings", Hebrew ben ha arbayim (Exodus 12:6, et cetera). Did that phrase refer to "twilight" or "dusk" (as some have claimed), or to the middle of the afternoon? → ex09c.htm – Look also under the heading "Passover".
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Lamentations, the book of

• Lamentation = A cry of sorrow and grief (from the Latin lamentatio, "wailing", "weeping"). The book of Lamentations was written by the prophet Jeremiah.
• The Jews sort the book of Lamentations under the section "Kethuvim", "the Writings". (Sometimes that section is called Tehillim, "the Psalms".) → ec01c.htm
• No passages in the book of Lamentations are mentioned or quoted at this site.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Lamp, lamps, lampstand, lampstands

• Important: Where bible-translations have "candle" or "candlestick", the original language texts referred to a lamp (oil-lamp) or a lamp-stand. For more on this, look under the headings "Menorah", "Candle, candles" and "Olive, olives, olive oil".
• The lamps of the virgins, Matthew 25. → eb07d.htm
• The oil-distributing lamp-stands of Revelation 11:4. → et01e.htm
• "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp". → et06d.htm
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Land, lands

• A note: In the Bible, the Hebrew word erets and the Greek word gê had several meanings – "land", "country", "ground", "soil", "earth", "world". Sometimes English translations mislead, by writing "Earth" when it should be "land", or similar.
• The land of Israel, the Promised Land
  • The ultimate, heavenly Promised Land. → eb05b.htm
  • The earthly Promised Land, its borders, and similar. → (eo06f.htm)
  • Look also under the heading "Tribes of Israel".
  • The Promised Land was also called "Rest" and "Inheritance". → ex11b.htm – eb05b.htm – Look also under the heading "Sabbatismos".
  • For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.
• Ancient lands mentioned in the Bible
  • A few things regarding certain ancient kingdoms which are mentioned in the Bible. → ew08b.htm
  • Look also under the heading "King, kingly, kings, kingdom, kingdoms".
  • For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.
• Land sabbath (periodical rest of agricultural land)
  • The Old Covenant stipulated a "land sabbath" (Leviticus 25:1-5) – agricultural was to be allowed to "rest", each seventh year.
  • Land sabbath mentioned in 2 Chronicles 36:20-21: "He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years". → ey05c.htm
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Language, languages, linguistic, linguistics, tongue, tongues

• The disciples were given an ability to speak in languages (tongues) that they had not known earlier. → ea09b.htm
• When the saints (people of the first century) received the Holy Spirit, they also received an ability to speak in languages that they had not previously known; that enabled them to proclaim the Good Message to all kinds of people. However, the glossolalia of our day has nothing to with that. For more on the manifestations and signs of the Holy Spirit, see the essays eb01c.htm and ec09b.htm.
• Romans 14:11, "For it is written: 'As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God'". → ea07b.htm
• When the disciples received the Holy Spirit, there were tongues of fire, and the Spirit gave them an ability to speak in tongues (languages) that they had not spoken earlier. → eb01c.htm
• 1 Timothy 3:8, "Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money". → ee01c.htm
• 1 John 3:18, "Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth". → eb13e.htm – em07b.htm
• Several bible-passages mention "false tongue" – that is, lying. → eo05c.htm
• Revelation 7:9, "A great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb". → et03c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Greek", "Hebrew", "Aramaic", "Speak" and "Glossolalia" (for Chaldee and Syriac, look under the heading "Aramaic").
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Laodicea, Laodicean, Laodiceans

• Laodicea, in the NT Greek Laodikeia, was an inland town, close to Colosse, in what today is the western part of Asiatic Turkey. It was originally called Diospolis and then Rhoas, but later it was named Laodicea, after Laodice the wife of Antiochus II, the Syrian king who rebuilt that city.
• Colossians 4:16 indicates that the apostle Paul had written a letter to Laodicea (a city close to Colosse), but if that was a letter other than those that are found in the New Testament, then it has not been preserved to our day. (Similarly, see 1 Corinthians 5:9 and 7:1 which show that Paul had written to Corinth already before "1 Corinthians".)
• Paul's letters show that he knew some people in Laodicea and Colosse, but it is not clear whether he ever visited those cities.
• The words Laodikeia and laodikeus appear in 6 New Testament passages, Colossians 2:1 and 4:13-15-16 and Revelation 1:11 and 3:14.
• In Revelation 3:14, the words tô angelô tês ekklêsias laodikeôn are to be interpreted literally, "the messenger of the assembly in Laodicea". Not "angel", but simply "messenger" which is what the word angelos (αγγελος) literally meant. In other words, that phrase in Revelation 3:14 obviously refers to some person (courier) who transported a message from the Lord in a letter written down by the apostle John, to the saints and believers in the town Laodicea. → See the footnote in the essay ea03d.htm.
• Some talk about "church eras", and call one of them "the Laodicean era". Apparently, the "church eras" dogma was invented by the American Freemason and Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849). For more on this, see the essay ea03d.htm and look also under the heading "Era, eras".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Last, last hour, last day

• "Last days"
  • Sometimes, when bible-translations have such phrases as "last days" (or "lattes days", or similar), that may refer to things and events which from our perspective are things of the past. An example of this is Genesis 49:1 where Jacob prophetically foretold what was to happen to the descendants of his sons, after his death. In that verse, the 1769 KJ version has "last days", some have "latter days", "in days to come", "in future times", and some "at the end of days" which is the correct translation. The thing to note and remember is that the days and events Jacob referred to were "latter", "coming" and "future", from the viewpoint of Jacob and his sons, but that those things then came to happen, and consequently are, from our viewpoint, days and events of the distant past. When one studies the Bible, it is important to always check what the time-perspective really is, in any given bible-passage. The essay eg02c.htm has more on this, as well as on other important keys to better biblical understanding. – Look also under the headings "Ever, everlasting, for ever, eternal" and "Olam".
• On the phrase "last day" in John 6:39, 40, 44, 54 (and more). → eb09c.htm
• John to some saints: "Little children, it is the last hour" (1 John 2:18). → eo02d.htm – eg04b.htm
• John 7:37, "The last day, the great one of the feast". → ex07c.htm
• On the phrase "last days" in 2 Timothy 3:1, and what time that referred to. → ea15c.htm
• On the seventh and last day of the Feast of Booths, there were special ceremonies and celebrations at the temple. → ex07c.htm
• The "last" trumpet (1 Corinthians 15:52). → et06d.htm – eb09c.htm – eg04b.htm
• When Israel took the stronghold Jericho, the walls of that city fell, at "the last trumpet". That happened on "the last day" – on the last day of the Unleavened Bread period. → ex04c.htm – et06d.htm
• "He called the twelve and said to them, If anyone wants to be 'first', he shall be last of all, and servant of all" (Mark 9:35). → ee03c.htm
• Is Jesus, as some claim, "the last stone to be placed on top of a pyramid" – or is he, as the Bible says, the first stone, the main stone of the foundation? → ea05c.htm
• "The first man Adam became a living creature, the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit" (1 Corinthians 15:45). → eb06b.htm
• "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26). → eb09c.htm
• Some claim that believers should keep the rules of the Old Covenant "to the last tittle". Is that true? → ec01c.htm – ec02d.htm
• The prophecy in Isaiah 14 regarding the last king of Babylon. → ed05c.htm
• The "Last Judgment". → et07e.htm
• Look also under the headings "Latter", "End time" and "Time, times, timings".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Lasting

• Look under the headings "Ever, everlasting, for ever, eternal", "Olam" and "Last".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Latter

• "Latter prophets"
  • "The Latter prophets" is a phrase connected to a Jewish way of dividing the Old Testament into sections. According to one reckoning, the part called "the Latter prophets" was further divided in "the Major prophets" (Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel) and "the Minor prophets" (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi). → (ec01c.htm)
• "Latter day", "latter days"
  • Sometimes, when bible-translations have such phrases as "latter days" (or even "last days"), that may refer to things and events which from our perspective are things of the past. An example of this is Genesis 49:1 where Jacob prophetically foretold what was to happen to the descendants of his sons, after his death. In that verse, KJV-1769 has "last days", some have "latter days", "in days to come", "in future times", and some "at the end of days" which is the correct translation. The thing to note and remember is that the days and events Jacob referred to were "latter", "coming" and "future", from the viewpoint of Jacob and his sons, but that those things then came to happen, and consequently are, from our viewpoint, days and events of the distant past. When one studies the Bible, it is important to always check what the time-perspective really is, in any given bible-passage. The essay eg02c.htm has more on this, as well as on other important keys to better biblical understanding.
• Look also under the headings "Last", "End time", "Time, times, timings", "Ever, everlasting, for ever, eternal" and "Olam".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Law, laws, lawful, unlawful (and related things)

• The Old Covenant and its written rules, versus the New Covenant. – Look under the heading "Covenants".
• "The Law" (the part of the Old Testament which the Jews call Torah). → ec01c.htm – ec06f.htm – ec07d.htm
• On the Hebrew word torah (towrah) and the translation "the Law". → ec06f.htm – ec01c.htm
• On the meaning of the word "Tanakh" (T-N-K: "Torah" – "Neviim" – "Kethuvim"). → ec01c.htm – ec06f.htm
• On the by men invented phrase "giving of the Law" (as a name for Pentecost). → ec06f.htm
• The phrase "the Ten Commandments" was coined in the Middle Ages and is a mistranslation. The Hebrew text talks about "the words of the covenant, the ten words". On Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 10:4 and the "Decalogue", tous deka logous, "the ten words". → ec06f.htm
• The commonly used phrase "the spirit of the law" is in fact not biblical, nor is the phrase "the letter of the law" found in the Bible. → ec13c.htm
  • Facts regarding "the letter" versus "the Spirit" (2 Corinthians 3 and Romans 7). → ec13c.htm
• The Old Testament: What was the difference between the concepts law, statutes, precepts, decrees, judgments, ordinances, charges, commandments and testimonies? → ec03d.htm
• Galatians 3:10, "For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse". → ec10c.htm – ex10d.htm
• The "added law" of Galatians 3:19 – really what is it that was added? → ec10c.htm – ec02d.htm
• Galatians 3:21 mentions law, but that verse contains a translation problem. → ec10c.htm – ec06f.htm – eo11b.htm
• Paul to the saints in Galatia: "Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?" (Galatians 4:21) → ec10c.htm – eo11b.htm – ec06f.htm
• On the New Covenant's torah. → ec08c.htm
• Regarding the translation "sin is the transgression of the law" in 1 John 3:4. → ec14b.htm – (ec12c.htm)
• Paul's teachings on law-related matters → eo11b.htm – ec12c.htm
• Law and Grace. → ec12c.htm – ec01c.htm
• On the word "lawful" in 1 Corinthians 6:12 – did the apostle really mean that "all things are lawful", as translations make it seem? → eo11b.htm
• The apostle Peter described the Old Covenant and its rules as a "yoke" (Acts 15:10). → eo04d.htm
• Does the New Covenant have "food rules"? → ef01b.htm
• On the word and concept "commandments" in the New Testament. → ec07d.htm (a complement to the essay ec06f.htm)
• Is the New Covenant a "renewal" or "modification" of the Old Covenant? → ec11c.htm
• What did Paul mean when he said the saints were not under law? → ec12c.htm
• Look also below, under the heading "Lawless, lawlessness", and under the headings "The works of the law", "Righteous, righteousness", "Sin", "Decalogue" and "Covenants".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Lawless, lawlessness

• In the NT, one of the Greek words for "lawlessness" is anomia. It was the opposite of dikaiosunê which meant "justice", "justness", "fairness", "righteousness". → eg08b.htm – ec14b.htm
• On the translation "whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4, NKJV). → ec14b.htm – (ec12c.htm) – (eg08b.htm)
• Matthew 24:12, "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold". → eo09e.htm
• "For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6:14). → (ew04d.htm)
• Look also above, under the heading "Law, laws, lawful, unlawful (and related things)", and under the headings "The works of the law", "Righteous, righteousness", "Sin", "Decalogue" and "Covenants".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

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