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You are saved by Grace, through faith, not works so no man can boast.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
If you have faith, you will have works.
[sup]18 [/sup]But someone [sup][q][/sup]may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”...
[sup]21 [/sup]Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? [sup]22 [/sup]You see that faith was working with his works, and [sup][s][/sup]as a result of the works, faith was [sup][t][/sup]perfected
THEREFORE:
If you have no works, you have no faith.
[sup]24 [/sup]You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. [sup]25 [/sup]In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? [sup]26 [/sup]For just as the body without the sp
irit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
If you have no faith, you can't have Grace because Grace comes through faith.
If you have no Grace, tell me again how you were saved?
Because you are saved for the intent and purpose of doing those works.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Rom 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
It's through WORKS you are made mature in Him, not through theology.
11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Works don't save you, but your salvation is invalid without them. So, you should strive to find your calling, what sort of instrument are you and work at doing that and doing it better.
The two people God used in the Bible that come to mind who didn't know they were being used were Pharaoh and Judas Iscariot.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
If you have faith, you will have works.
[sup]18 [/sup]But someone [sup][q][/sup]may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”...
[sup]21 [/sup]Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? [sup]22 [/sup]You see that faith was working with his works, and [sup][s][/sup]as a result of the works, faith was [sup][t][/sup]perfected
THEREFORE:
If you have no works, you have no faith.
[sup]24 [/sup]You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. [sup]25 [/sup]In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? [sup]26 [/sup]For just as the body without the sp
irit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
If you have no faith, you can't have Grace because Grace comes through faith.
If you have no Grace, tell me again how you were saved?
Because you are saved for the intent and purpose of doing those works.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Rom 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
It's through WORKS you are made mature in Him, not through theology.
11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Works don't save you, but your salvation is invalid without them. So, you should strive to find your calling, what sort of instrument are you and work at doing that and doing it better.
The two people God used in the Bible that come to mind who didn't know they were being used were Pharaoh and Judas Iscariot.