6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. Love Fulfills the Law 7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lum...
Luther's understanding of the work of Christ and his idea of the "joyous exchange" between Christ and believers reflect many ideas that are foreign to Paul's thought, both agree on the heart of the gospel, namely, that justification is by faith alone, since "faith alone fulfills the law...
God used Christ's body to condemn sin. English Revised VersionFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:GOD'S WORD® TranslationIt is ...
…[Y]ou were led to the holy pool of Divine Baptism, as Christ was carried from the Cross to the Sepulchre which is before our eyes. And each of you was asked, whether he believed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and you made that saving confes...
Love Fulfills the Law 8Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.9The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,”“You shall not murder,”“You shall not steal,”“You shall not covet,”[q]and whate...
(and How Christ fulfills the Covenants to freshen up on this topic.] Divine law is any time God breaks into history and gives commands or instructions. He did this with Adam and Eve, Noah, and Abraham. So divine law was around before Moses. For example, the divine decree to circumcise...
The Hatred of the World…23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law...
without seeing it as the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Likewise, a full understanding of the Old Testament depends on our reading it as a preparation for the work of Christ in the New Testament. Of course, we might ask, “What major Old Testament prophecies did Jesus actually fulfill?
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. If I love my neighbor as myself I do not help him/her to sin. Or continue to sin when their transgressions are brought into the public and to my attention...
He said, “I’ve come only to fulfill Scripture.” And all these words on the cross are taken from the Old Testament. 所以,在約翰福音中,我總是這樣。在整本福音書中,他肯定我是門,我是牧羊人。我是葡萄樹。我是真正的水,活水。我所說的所有這些東西,都是在人身上。所以今天晚上,數以百萬計的...