Why, then, does God permit the chastening rod to fall?

Answer

"For they [parents] verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that
we might be partakers of His holiness." Heb. 12: 10.

What use of this prophecy by the Apostle Peter shows that it referred to Christ?
Upon what ground did Nicodemus rest his belief that Christ was a teacher from God?
In view of the judgment hour, what is proclaimed anew?
21. What did this council, in its twenty-ninth canon, decree concerning the Sabbath and Christians who continued to observe it ?
What is said of the character of these scaled ones?
22. How did He manifest His sympathy in the case of Mary and her friends weeping over the death of Lazarus?
Why was the parable of the importunate widow given?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle