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Backsliding » Results of » Divine displeasure
Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."
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For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
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Faith/faithfulness » Who shall live by faith
Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."
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For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who trusts, of the Jew first and then of the Greek. For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."
Now it is evident that through the law no man is brought into right standing with God, for "The man in right standing with God will live by faith,"
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Justification » Justification by faith
By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.
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and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.
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Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."
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For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God."
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just as "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God"?
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Pleasure » Who cannot please God
but without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that there is a God and that He gives rewards to all who earnestly try to find Him.
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The people who live on the plane of the lower nature cannot please God.
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Indeed, to carry out the will of God and to receive the blessing He has promised, you need endurance, for: "In just a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay; Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."