Thematic Bible: Who is confident


Thematic Bible



who is so great an impostor as he, who denies that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denies the father and the son. whosoever denieth the son, disowns the father: adhere therefore to what ye have learnt from the beginning. if you adhere to what ye have heard from the beginning, you will still persist to own both the son and the father. read more.
and this is the reward that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written to you concerning those that would seduce you. but as the unction which ye have received from him, abides in you, you don't need any instruction: being then fully instructed by his unction, which is true and not fallacious, adhere to what that has taught you. adhere to that, my dear children, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.


now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it. therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord, (for I regulate my conduct by my future expectations, not by visible enjoyments: read more.
) in this assurance, I say, I think it best to be quit of this body, and be present with the Lord. wherefore I studiously endeavour, whether staying in it, or departing out of it, to be acceptable to him.