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Boasting » What not to boast of
Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes. You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that." But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.
death » Preparation for
And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;
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While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
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if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;
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As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.
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(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).
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Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit, and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.
You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."
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Evil » What is evil
Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes. You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that." But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.
God » Will of, submission to » The rule of every-day life
and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.
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You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."
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natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes. You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.
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You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."
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Will » God's, submission to » The rule of every-day life
and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.
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You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."
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