Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Enjoyment » Enjoying the fruits of your labor
Gifts from God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
the Gifts of God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Giving and gifts » The gift of God
For God never regrets his gifts or his Call.
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Every one of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ.
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The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.
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For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's. It is not due to obedience to Law, lest any one should boast. For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands.
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"A curse upon you and upon your money," Peter exclaimed, "for thinking that God's free gift can be bought with gold!
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Yet, from Adam to Moses, Death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam's was. And Adam foreshadows the One to come. But there is a contrast between Adam's Offence and God's gracious Gift. For, if by reason of the offence of the one man the whole race died, far more were the loving-kindness of God, and the gift given in the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ, lavished upon the whole race. There is a contrast, too, between the gift and the results of the one man's sin. The judgment, which followed upon the one man's sin, resulted in condemnation, but God's gracious Gift, which followed upon many offences, resulted in a decree of righteousness. read more.
For if, by reason of the offence of the one man, Death reigned through that one man, far more will those, upon whom God's loving- kindness and his gift of righteousness are lavished, find Life, and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ. Briefly then, just as a single offence resulted for all mankind in condemnation, so, too, a single decree of righteousness resulted for all mankind in that declaration of righteousness which brings Life.
For if, by reason of the offence of the one man, Death reigned through that one man, far more will those, upon whom God's loving- kindness and his gift of righteousness are lavished, find Life, and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ. Briefly then, just as a single offence resulted for all mankind in condemnation, so, too, a single decree of righteousness resulted for all mankind in that declaration of righteousness which brings Life.