James 2:17

Let all that you do be done in love.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

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For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,