Thematic Bible: Want of
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Liberality » Want of » Brings many a curse
Liberality » Want of » A proof of not having faith
My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him? If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?
Liberality » Want of » A proof of not loving God
But if someone who is rich sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can he have any love for God in his heart?
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Perseverance » Want of » Punished
Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.
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Observe then the goodness and the severity of God??everity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, provided you abide by his goodness, for otherwise, you in your turn will be pruned away.
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Perseverance » Want of » Illustrated
Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,
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but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.
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Perseverance » Want of » Excludes from the benefits of the gospel
For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age, and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt.