for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)

And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, ??12 and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),

It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.