"Faith without works is dead," (James 2:26). Faith is designed to always spur us on to obedience in Christ and to be like he was. Here is the meaning of the Bible verse and what it means to have a faith that produces fruit through our work!
So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works;
James makes this point to show that we are saved by faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. That is why he says in verse 18, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”...
decisions cannot be made without taking them to the Lord in prayer. We need to express our needs, our desires, and our hopes. Give Him the glory for all he has done for us and what He will continue to do. He knows our needs before we ask, but we...
it is the result of the choice exercised by freedom, and without freedom goodness could not be virtue. Permitted by God, it is yet overruled by Him. It has borne its fearful fruit in the death and curse of humanity, but its works have led to the manifestation of the works of God in...
20. therefore no one is justified by the law;28. but all, without difference, by faith, only;31. and yet the law is not abolished.Study Bible Book ◦ Chapter ThereforeThis word serves as a conclusion drawn from the preceding arguments. In the context of Romans, Paul has been building...
Lewis (on my reading), think that is what even Christianity is mostly about -- the naive perspective, advocated by few serious Christian theologians but evident in most television evangelists, is that one cannot truly be morally good without Christian faith -- and there are verses in both ...
without knowing I ever sinned. So you will say that this blessing is conditional on confession. That is Catholic and not biblical. The Bible DOES teach that those who are not bastards receive chastening to drive them back to their sin and confess it. Psalm 51 shows how God did this with...
the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or spunges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which if doubts had not preceded a man should never have advised but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts is made to be attended and ...
Amen. 2 Ave rosa sine spinis Hail, rose without thorns, whom the Father set on high in divine majesty and made free from all sorrow. Mary, called the star of the sea, by your son you are made resplendent with the bright light of divinity, through which you shine with every virtue. ...