Thematic Bible: What is profitable


Thematic Bible







Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work, they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men. For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. read more.
But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal." It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.