Do this until your kingdom is so complete and perfect that in it you are all in all. This is the beauty of God's Word - it certainly is divinely inspired so as to be perfectly accurate and (WWJD) just so happens to perfectly correspond with their personal preferences.

now condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,' because 'God did' what we could not: keep His righteous Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

God of peace: John Stott notes here that God is both the author of harmony and that He's the only perfectly In other words, God isn't just peaceful, He's the creator, designer, and perfect example of the very

22 They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation

and by holy exercises of godliness [piety / Spiritual Disciplines],  and to strain toward the goal of perfection actually a gift, for if we did we'd restrict our definition of the depths to only those situations that perfectly

Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did. 52 Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered

His always perfect love for you "remains the same, yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8)."

made fully complete the moment you put your faith into Christ; you are instantly justified (declared righteous

we have no access to God except through the one and only Mediator and Intercessor: Jesus Christ the Righteous

But we don't need any help - it's the same self righteous theys who'd been criticizing Jesus' grace since