- Does God give you the Spirit and work mighty deeds among you because you have kept the Law or because you believed what you have heard?
- He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.
- Not because of any righteous deeds on our part
but because of his mercy,
he saved us through the bath of rebirth
and renewal by the Holy Spirit. - Who among you is wise and understanding? Prove by your good life that your works are done with the humility that comes from wisdom.
- An ignorant man causes strife by his insolence,
but wisdom is found with those who take advice. - This is
‘the stone rejected by you, the builders,
that has become the cornerstone.’ - And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who are peacemakers.
- There is no salvation in anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to men by which we can be saved.
- Hence, I advise you to be guided by the Spirit, so that you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- I will establish my covenant with you: never again will all living creatures be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will the earth be laid waste by a flood again.
- The upright are guarded by their integrity;
the treacherous are destroyed by their own duplicity. - All those who have sinned outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.
- You have already been cleansed
by the word I have spoken to you. - Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outer self is continuing to decay, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is great:
He was made visible in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed to the Gentiles,
believed in throughout the world,
taken up in glory. - For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more certain it is that, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit
and become my disciples. - For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith. This has not come from you but from the gift of God. It does not come from works, so that no one can boast.
- Although it was our afflictions that he bore,
our sufferings that he endured,
we thought of him as stricken,
as struck down by God and afflicted. - He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
- All those who keep his commandments abide in him,
and he abides in them.
And the proof that he abides in us
is the Spirit that he has given us. - But he is to ask with faith, without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind.
- By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation.
- This is how everyone will know
that you are my disciples:
if you love one another. - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her in order to sanctify her by cleansing her with water and the word.
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