Thematic Bible: Want of
Thematic Bible
Liberality » Want of » Brings many a curse
Liberality » Want of » A proof of not having faith
But what is it profitable, my brethren, if one may say he has faith, but has not works? whether is faith able to save him? If a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food, and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?
Liberality » Want of » A proof of not loving God
Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?
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Perseverance » Want of » Punished
If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.
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Then behold the goodness and severity of God: upon those who fell indeed, severity; but upon you the goodness of God, if you may abide in his goodness: since you too may be cut off.
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Perseverance » Want of » Illustrated
And other fell upon stones, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
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And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then tribulation or persecution arising on account of the word, they are immediately offended:
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Perseverance » Want of » Excludes from the benefits of the gospel
For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and having tasted the beautiful word of God, and the dynamites of the coming age, indeed having fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance; having crucified to themselves again the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.