But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.