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6:1 How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?
6:2 Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
15:1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
15:2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
15:3 You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
12:1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
Could be based upon skill, but always has a component of chance. That’s what makes it “gambling” – it’s unpredictable.
Does it have to be money to be considered gambling?
Could be betting on dinner, a CD, etc. (something of value taken away if don’t win)
From Carlson & Moore, 1998:
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