Being A Perfect Christian

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

As many, therefore, as <FI>are<Fi> perfect--let us think this, and if <FI>in<Fi> anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre, — read the full passage →

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and the people see, and move, and stand afar off,

`Thou dost not murder.

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.