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Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches his disciples concerning offenses, meekness, and humility (in peraea)
And he said to the disciples, It is impossible there come not causes of offence: and woe, through whom they come! It is profitable to him if the millstone of an ass were placed about his neck, and he cast into the sea, rather than he should offend one of these little ones. Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go. read more.
And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go. And the sent said to the Lord, Add faith to us. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you. And which of you having a servant ploughing or feeding, who will say to him having come out of the field, Quickly having come, recline? But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup, and, being girded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and after these, thou mayest eat and drink? He has no favor to that servant, for he did the things appointed. I think not. So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done.
And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go. And the sent said to the Lord, Add faith to us. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you. And which of you having a servant ploughing or feeding, who will say to him having come out of the field, Quickly having come, recline? But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup, and, being girded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and after these, thou mayest eat and drink? He has no favor to that servant, for he did the things appointed. I think not. So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done.
Supererogation » The doctrine of excessive and meritorious righteousness
And thou, son of man, say to the sons of my people, The justice of the just shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: and the injustice of the unjust, he shall not stumble in it in the day of his turning back from his injustice; and the just shall not be able to live in the day of his sinning. In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it
So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done.
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