Sunday January 31, 2010
            "Our Faith"

                1 Cor. 13:1-13 (ESV)
                If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a
                noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] And if I have prophetic powers, and
                understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as
                to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [3] If I give away
                all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I
                gain nothing.  [4] Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
                it is not arrogant  [5] or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not
                irritable or resentful; [6] it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices
                with the truth. [7] Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
                endures all things.  [8] Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass
                away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
                [9] For we know in part and we prophesy in part, [10] but when the perfect
                comes, the partial will pass away. [11] When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
                I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave
                up childish ways. [12] For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
                Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
                [13] So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


                James 2:14-26 (ESV)
                What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have
                works? Can that faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister is poorly clothed
                and lacking in daily food, [16] and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be
                warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what
                good is that? [17] So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
                [18] But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your
                faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
                [19] You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and
                shudder! [20] Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart
                from works is useless? [21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works
                when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? [22] You see that faith was active
                along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; [23] and the
                Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted
                to him as righteousness"— and he was called a friend of God. [24] You see
                that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. [25] And in the same
                way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received
                the messengers and sent them out by another way? [26] For as the body
                apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

 

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