You, however, must stand by what you learnt and accepted as true. You know who they were from whom you learnt it;

who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.

that having been accepted as righteous by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life.

Was not Abraham our father accepted as righteous through works, when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.

What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? or what can those who accept the Faith have in common with those who reject it?

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

But while seeking to be accepted as righteous in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Far be it!

So then the Law hath been our schoolmaster, to lead us to Christ, that we might be accepted as righteous through faith;

But I say to the rest of you at Thyatira--all who do not accept such teaching, whose who did not learn 'the secrets of Satan,' as men call them--I am not laying on you any further burden;