1599 Geneva Bible: “Kill Your Self-Centered Motives"

Colossians 3:5 (i)Mortify therefore your (ii)members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:6 For the which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

i. Do not let not your dead nature motivate you any more, but let your living nature be motivate you. Now the force of nature is shown by one's motives and actions. Therefore let the affections of the flesh die in you, and let the opposite affections which are spiritual, live. And the author then lists a great long scroll of vices, and their opposite virtues.
ii. The motivations and desires that are in us, are in this place very properly called members, since the reason and the will of man is corrupted, he does use them as the body does its members.


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1599 Geneva Bible: “God's Patientce."

Exodus 4:14 Then the Lord was very angry(i) with Moses, and said, Do not I know Aaron thy brother the Levite, that he himself shall speak? for lo, he cometh also forth to meet thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

i.  Though we provoke God justly to anger, yet he will never reject his.

1599 Geneva Bible: “I Set Before You Life and Death"

Deuteronomy 30:16 In that I command thee this day, (i)to love the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandment, and His ordinances, and His laws, that thou mayest (ii)live, and be multiplied, and that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land, whither thou goest to possess it.


i. So that to love and obey God, is only life and happiness.
ii. He adds these promises to show that it is for our good that we love Him, and not for His.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “God will Circumcise Your Heart"

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord thy God will (i) circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, that thou mayest love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

i. God will purge all thy wicked affections, and such a thing is not in our own power to do.



[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Renounce your own Righteousness"

Romans 10:2-3 For I bear them record that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. (i)For (ii)they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and going about to (iii)establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to
the righteousness of God.

i. The first entrance unto salvation, is to renounce our own righteousness: the next is, to embrace that righteousness by faith, which God has freely offered to us in the Gospel.
ii. The ignorance of the Law which we should know, excuses none before God, especially it doesn't excuse them that are of His household.
iii. Ignorance has always pride joined with it.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Spirtual Worship"

Galatians 5:5 (i) For we through the (ii) Spirit wait for the hope
of righteousness through faith.

i. He compares the new people with the old: for it is certain
that they (old Testament Faithful Israel) also did ground all their hope of justification and life in faith and not in circumcision, but their faith was wrapped in the external and ceremonial worship: but our (New Testament Christians) faith is bare and content with spiritual worship.
ii. Through the Spirit, which begets faith.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Watch Yourself"

Galatians 6:5 (i) For every man shall bear his own burden.

i. A reason given for why men should have the greatest watch upon themselves, because every man shall be judged before God according to his own life, and not by comparing himself with other men.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]