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For He who said, Do not commit adultery , also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness , and he was called God's friend.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

You don't even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn't do it.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

You are being protected by God's power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be serious and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,