Znaleziono 991 Wyniki dla: Spiritual Life
Thus faith, if it has no deeds to shew for itself, has lost its own principle of life. (James 2, 17)
Rash soul, wouldst thou be assured that faith without deeds to shew has no life in it? (James 2, 20)
What is your life but a wisp of smoke, which shews for a moment and then must vanish into nothing? You ought to be saying, We will do this or that if it is the Lord’s will, and if life is granted us. (James 4, 15)
you too must be built up on him, stones that live and breathe, into a spiritual fabric; you must be a holy priesthood, to offer up that spiritual sacrifice which God accepts through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2, 5)
Your life amidst the Gentiles must be beyond reproach; decried as malefactors, you must let them see, from your honourable behaviour, what you are; they will praise God for you, when his time comes to have mercy on them.✻ (1 Peter 2, 12)
You, too, who are husbands must use marriage considerately, paying homage to woman’s sex as weaker than your own. The grace of eternal life belongs to both, and your prayers must not suffer interruption.✻ (1 Peter 3, 7)
Yes, long life and prosperous days, who would have these for the asking? My counsel is, keep thy tongue clear of harm, and thy lips free from every treacherous word. (1 Peter 3, 10)
but courteously and with due reverence. What matters is that you should have a clear conscience; so the defamers of your holy life in Christ will be disappointed in their calumny. (1 Peter 3, 16)
It was thus that Christ died as a ransom, paid once for all, on behalf of our sins, he the innocent for us the guilty, so as to present us in God’s sight. In his mortal nature he was done to death, but endowed with fresh life in his spirit, (1 Peter 3, 18)
He sits, now, at the right hand of God, annihilating death, to make us heirs of eternal life; he has taken his journey to heaven, with all the angels and powers and princedoms made subject under his feet.✻ (1 Peter 3, 22)
The rest of your mortal life must be ordered by God’s will, not by human appetites. (1 Peter 4, 2)
See how all the gifts that make for life and holiness in us belong to his divine power; come to us through fuller knowledge of him, whose own glory and sovereignty have drawn us to himself!✻ (2 Peter 1, 3)
