Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
but it is just you should cultivate my affection for you upon all proper occasions, and not only when I am present with you.
Verse Concepts
Fire » Illustrative of » Zeal of saints
Purity » What is pure
but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.
Verse Concepts
The fruit of righteousness » The righteousness of the lord
but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law: that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction:
Simon Peter the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who equally share with us in the advantages of faith, thro' the veracity of our God, and of Jesus Christ.
Verse Concepts
nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ, and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,