Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
But just as He Who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do: for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
To Him Who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy, to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received tha promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
However, to the man who does not work but trusts God Who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited to him as righteousness.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.
What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”