121811 That your faith and hope might be in God

"And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with …

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121711 Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God

"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?    Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask …

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121611 Without faith it is impossible to please Him

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.   For by it the elders obtained a good report.  Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel …

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