God created them good and in his own image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that they Last week’s readings reminded us that humans cannot keep God’s law perfectly and are inclined by nature

as I already now experience in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, so after this life I will have perfect brought His Father glory by completing this work, and His prayer is that the Father will accept His righteous

throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43  Then the righteous parables to be shocking stories with a spiritual meaning, and the parable we're chewing on today is a perfect AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who will make the righteous shine like the

accordance with what each person will eat. 5  The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect We can see how the blood of an innocent and perfect lamb protects those covered by it from the terrible but righteous wrath of our holy God.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3  It would be a perfect summarization of today's passage: know what gift(s) you have and then Just Do It

And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be The effects of this distinction are total: we read here that it controls what your mind is set on as This means that you now please God because in Christ, the righteous requirement of the law might be fully

and by holy exercises of godliness [piety / Spiritual Disciplines],  and to strain toward the goal of perfection - you must - take up your weapons in a spirit of supplication and keep straining toward the goal of perfection

the first man, created in the very image of the Creator in order represent God within this new and perfect How it must of hurt God to kill another of His perfect creatures in order to cover up the shame of His Only now it's a horrific tree on a hill of death, on which the perfect Son of God would be hung.

of imitation  as in former times the Pelagians would have it  but by way of the propagation of their perverted your very nature; you need to go from being in Adam and his sin to being grafted into Christ and His righteousness

full-grown, gives birth to death. 16  Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17  Every good and perfect Our unchanging Father is the giver of every good and perfect gift . He is not the author of evil.