Tag: Grace
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All of Us Are Being Transformed
JUSTIFICATION All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.2 Corinthians 3, 18 Therefore, we are not discouraged; instead, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed…
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Be Subject to One Another
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as…
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But Only as through Fire
PURGATORY According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is…
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Children of God
DIVINE ADOPTION See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We…
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Created in Christ Jesus for Good Works
Cooperative Grace For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to…
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Faith Without Works Is Dead
JUSTIFICATION What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do…
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Faith Working Through Love
Justification & Sanctification You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ;you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faiththe righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcisionnor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faithexpressing itself…
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Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions
OBJECTIVE & SUBJECTIVE REDEMPTION I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the…
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Guilty of an Everlasting Sin
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against…
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I Am the Vine; You Are the Branches
SALVATION “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I…
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