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MaMo @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 09:26 UTC

Inizialmente doveva essere una storia di spazio. Un'avventura #scifi di quelle che piacciono a me: cozy scifi per essere esatti, con un cane spaziale e tante avventure il tutto ispirato dalla alla #MissioneArtemisII
Poi tutto ha preso un'altra piega ed ecco...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYj2y7AjBH-/?igsh=a3VnbTRua2VhZWNp

#airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox #moon #volpebianca #wildlife #hardware #homedecor #newpost #newcreation #sculpting #modellingclay #hardware #homedecor #unrealtoys #scultura

#scifi #missioneartemisii #airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox

MaMo @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 09:26 UTC

Inizialmente doveva essere una storia di spazio. Un'avventura #scifi di quelle che piacciono a me: cozy scifi per essere esatti, con un cane spaziale e tante avventure il tutto ispirato dalla alla #MissioneArtemisII
Poi tutto ha preso un'altra piega ed ecco...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYj2y7AjBH-/?igsh=a3VnbTRua2VhZWNp

#airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox #moon #volpebianca #wildlife #hardware #homedecor #newpost #newcreation #sculpting #modellingclay #hardware #homedecor #unrealtoys #scultura

#scifi #missioneartemisii #airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox

MaMo @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 09:26 UTC

Inizialmente doveva essere una storia di spazio. Un'avventura #scifi di quelle che piacciono a me: cozy scifi per essere esatti, con un cane spaziale e tante avventure il tutto ispirato dalla alla #MissioneArtemisII
Poi tutto ha preso un'altra piega ed ecco...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYj2y7AjBH-/?igsh=a3VnbTRua2VhZWNp

#airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox #moon #volpebianca #wildlife #hardware #homedecor #newpost #newcreation #sculpting #modellingclay #hardware #homedecor #unrealtoys #scultura

#scifi #missioneartemisii #airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox

MaMo @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 09:26 UTC

Inizialmente doveva essere una storia di spazio. Un'avventura #scifi di quelle che piacciono a me: cozy scifi per essere esatti, con un cane spaziale e tante avventure il tutto ispirato dalla alla #MissioneArtemisII
Poi tutto ha preso un'altra piega ed ecco...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYj2y7AjBH-/?igsh=a3VnbTRua2VhZWNp

#airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox #moon #volpebianca #wildlife #hardware #homedecor #newpost #newcreation #sculpting #modellingclay #hardware #homedecor #unrealtoys #scultura

#scultura #unrealtoys #modellingclay #sculpting #newcreation #newpost

MaMo @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 09:26 UTC

Inizialmente doveva essere una storia di spazio. Un'avventura #scifi di quelle che piacciono a me: cozy scifi per essere esatti, con un cane spaziale e tante avventure il tutto ispirato dalla alla #MissioneArtemisII
Poi tutto ha preso un'altra piega ed ecco...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYj2y7AjBH-/?igsh=a3VnbTRua2VhZWNp

#airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox #moon #volpebianca #wildlife #hardware #homedecor #newpost #newcreation #sculpting #modellingclay #hardware #homedecor #unrealtoys #scultura

#scifi #missioneartemisii #airdryclay #volpe #luna #fox

Biblians @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 16:31 UTC

New in Jesus, God gives victory, every day. ✨

#biblians #bibliansapp #Jesus #GodsLove #VictoryInChrist #NewCreation #Faith

#biblians #bibliansapp #jesus #godslove #victoryinchrist #newcreation

Slow Mover @[email protected] · 2026-04-05 · 19:59 UTC

Called by Name in the Garden

An Easter Homily

(Note: Sermons can be heard in audio format at https://millersburgmennonite.org/worship/sermon-audio/)

John 20:1–18

Introduction:

Easter morning begins in a garden.

That is not accidental. John is never careless with his details. He wants us to notice where we are. We are in a garden, on the first day of the week, at the dawning of something no one yet understands. And if we listen closely, we can hear old echoes stirring beneath the new story. We remember another garden. We remember another beginning. We remember the breath of God moving over creation. We remember humanity formed from the earth and called into life.

And now here, in another garden, at the edge of another beginning, Mary Magdalene stands weeping before a tomb.

This is Easter, according to John. Not brass and banners at first. Not certainty. Not a choir already at full voice. But a grieving woman in a garden, searching for the body of the one she loves.

And yet it is here, precisely this place, that the new creation begins.

John wants us to see that Easter is not simply a happy ending after a tragic Friday. Easter is the beginning of God making all things new. The resurrection of Jesus is not merely proof that life continues after death. It is the opening act of a renewed creation. The old world of violence, burial, empire, grief, and endings has not disappeared overnight. Mary still cries. The tomb is still real. The wounds in Jesus’ body have not been erased.

But something new has broken into the world. The Creator has begun again.

That is why the garden matters.

Let us pray,
May the Words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen

Homily:

In Genesis, life begins in a garden. In John, new life begins in a garden. In Genesis, humanity loses its way among trees, shame, and fear. In John, a human being stands again among trees, tears, and confusion, and there encounters the living Christ. In Genesis, the ground is cursed by death. In John, the earth itself becomes the place from which resurrection life is announced.

And there is one detail so strange and so beautiful that it almost slips past us: Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener.

She is wrong, and yet somehow, she is not wrong at all.

For if this is new creation, then who would Jesus be but the gardener of God’s renewed world? Who would he be but the one tending life where death had seemed to reign? Who would he be but the one bringing forth new growth from the scarred soil of human history?

I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

Jesús es el jardinero del mundo.
The risen Christ is not less than the crucified one. He is the crucified one transformed, alive, and at work in the garden of the world. He is still bearing wounds, but now those wounds belong to a life death cannot master. He is the gardener of a new humanity, the keeper of a new creation, the tender of all that empire tried to uproot and bury.

And this matters because many of us still live as though the world is only a graveyard.

Many of us know what it is to stand among the remnants of what was, among memories, among losses, among plans that did not come to pass, among dreams buried too early. Many of us know what it is to look at the world and see only tombs: tombs of justice deferred, tombs of broken trust, tombs of worn-out institutions, tombs of relationships, tombs of hope. We know what it is to come to church carrying not celebration but sorrow.

Easter does not shame us for that.
Instead, Easter meets us in the garden and says: this is where God begins again.

Not somewhere else. Not after you become more cheerful. Not after all the evidence is in. Not after every grief has been resolved. Right here.

In the place where you came expecting only loss. In the place where you thought the best you could do was tend the dead. In the place where your tears are still warm on your face.

Aquí mismo, Dios ya está obrando para hacer nuevas todas las cosas. Right here, God is already at work making all things new.

But John does not stop with new creation. He also gives us one of the most personal moments in all of scripture.

Mary sees Jesus and does not know him.

She sees the angels and still does not understand. She sees Jesus himself and assumes he is the gardener. And perhaps that should comfort us. Because we often imagine that if only God would do something dramatic enough, obvious enough, dazzling enough, then we would finally believe without hesitation. But in this story, resurrection itself stands before Mary, and she still does not know.

Why?

Because resurrection, in John, is not simply something to be observed. La resurrección es alguien a quien encontrar. It is someone to be encountered.
Mary does not truly recognize Jesus until he speaks her name.

“Mary.”

That is the turning point of the whole passage. Not the empty tomb by itself. Not the folded grave clothes. Not even the sight of Jesus standing there. The turning point is that the risen Christ calls her by name.

And with one word, the whole world changes.

Mary is no longer simply a mourner at a grave. She is not simply a witness to an event. She is addressed. Known. Reached. Called into relationship again.

My friends, this is good news! The resurrection of Jesus is not only a doctrine to defend. It is not only an argument that death has been defeated, though it is surely that. It is also this: Cristo resucitado aún conoce nuestros nombres. The risen Christ knows us by name.

The one whom death could not hold is not distant, abstract, or vague. He is not merely the subject of our hymns and creeds. He is the living one who calls people personally, intimately, tenderly. He comes not only to humanity in general but to each beloved child of God in particular.

Jesus knows your name beneath all the names the world has placed on you. Beneath your titles, your failures, your roles, your pain, your reputation, your confusion, your grief. Beneath all the labels—ALL the labels —successful, unsuccessful, strong, weak, faithful, doubtful, useful, forgotten—Christ knows your true name.

And perhaps that is why the church gathers on Easter: because we need once more to hear ourselves called by the voice we know, the voice of the Good Shepherd, the voice that speaks not condemnation but life.

“Mary.”

And if you listen, perhaps you can hear your own name there too.

Yet even here, the story turns again in a surprising way. Just when Mary recognizes Jesus, just when she reaches toward him, just when she wants to hold onto what has been restored, Jesus says, “Do not hold on to me.”

It is one of the strangest lines in the resurrection stories. It sounds almost harsh at first. But it is not rejection.

Es una invitación a una relación transformada.
It is invitation into a changed relationship.

Mary wants, understandably, to keep Jesus as she knew him before. To stay in that moment. To cling to who or what has been found again. Who among us would not? When something lost is restored, when someone beloved is returned, our instinct is to hold tight. To keep it from slipping away. To preserve the moment before it changes again.

But resurrection is not a return to the old arrangement.

Jesus is alive, but not simply back. He is risen into a new reality, and his followers cannot relate to him as though nothing has changed. The relationship will continue, but it will be transformed. It will become a relationship carried not by physical nearness alone, but by trust, by Spirit, by witness, and by mission.

How often do we try to hold on to Jesus in ways that keep us from following the living Christ into newness? We cling to old forms, old certainties, old pictures of how God must act. We cling to past revelations, moments we cannot reproduce, seasons we cannot recover, churches as they used to be, lives as they once were, versions of ourselves that no longer fit the call before us in this present moment. We want resurrection to mean restoration of the familiar.

But sometimes Easter means letting go.

Sometimes the risen Christ says: do not cling to what you think I must be. Do not imprison me in yesterday’s forms. Do not reduce resurrection to nostalgia. I am alive, and because I am alive, Te estoy llevando a un lugar nuevo. I am leading you somewhere new.

That can be unsettling. But it is also liberating. Because faith is not about grasping a frozen sacred past. Faith is trusting the living Christ who is still moving today, still calling today, still sending today, still making all things new today.

And that leads us to the final wonder of this passage: the grieving one becomes the messenger.

Jesus says to Mary, “Go to my brothers and say to them…”

He sends her.

This too is astonishing. The first witness of the resurrection in John’s Gospel is not Peter. Not the beloved disciple. Not the most publicly powerful person. Not the one least marked by grief. It is Mary Magdalene, who came looking for the dead and found herself entrusted with the news of life.

The one who came weeping becomes the one who announces hope.

The one who came to tend a broken body becomes the one who bears a message of healing and hope.

The one who had been standing outside the tomb crying is now the first to say, “I have seen the Lord.”

And there is gospel in that for the church.

Because too often we imagine that the good news is entrusted only to the polished, the confident, the credentialed, the unshaken. But here the risen Christ places the message first into the mouth of one who has just been weeping. The first Easter preacher is one whose voice is still raw from grief.

So take heart, church. You do not need to have mastered every sorrow before you can bear witness. You do not need to have solved every mystery before you can testify. You do not need to stand above the world’s pain in order to speak hope into it.

Sometimes the most faithful witness is the one who doesn’t say, “I understand everything,” but simply,
“He visto al Señor.” “I have seen the Lord.”

That is enough.

That is the task of Easter People.

To live as those who have glimpsed new creation in the midst of the old world. To listen for the voice that calls us by name. To loosen our grip on what must pass, so that we may follow the living Christ into what is being born.

And to bear witness, even through tears, that death does not get the final word.

So today, in this garden of resurrection, hear the good news:
Christ is alive.
The gardener is at work.
Creation is beginning again.
Your name is known.
Your grief is not disqualifying.
Your clinging can become trust.
And your trembling voice may yet become the voice that tells the world,
“I have seen the Lord.”

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#abideinchrist #calledbyname #christiandiscipleship #donotholdontome #easter #easterfaith

Bedfordview Methodist Church @[email protected] · 2025-07-11 · 08:00 UTC

"Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule – to the Israel of God."

Galatians 6:15-16 #Bible #NewCreation #salvation

#bible #newcreation #salvation

Bedfordview Methodist Church @[email protected] · 2025-07-11 · 08:00 UTC

"Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule – to the Israel of God."

Galatians 6:15-16 #Bible #NewCreation #salvation

#bible #newcreation #salvation

Bedfordview Methodist Church @[email protected] · 2025-07-11 · 08:00 UTC

"Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule – to the Israel of God."

Galatians 6:15-16 #Bible #NewCreation #salvation

#salvation #newcreation #bible

Alive in Christ @[email protected] · 2025-03-12 · 20:31 UTC

#NewCreation #Reconciliation #FaithJourney #Transformation #GodsLove #Christians #Grace #FaithAndHope #SpiritualGrowth #AmbassadorsOfChrist

#newcreation #reconciliation #faithjourney #transformation #godslove #christians

Greg Johnson @[email protected] · 2024-09-07 · 09:43 UTC

Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, advises plant owners who improved tech and could reduce workforce. Such an employer must ease workers to other jobs. Workers had enriched the owner. This duty required by the common Master of the workers and owners.

Would we say this today? Do we get mad at “the economy” when employers wipe their hands of unneeded workers?

How can you pay attention to your fellow creatures?

#christian #povertykiller #savethechildren #kindness #newcreation

Greg Johnson @[email protected] · 2024-09-07 · 09:43 UTC

Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, advises plant owners who improved tech and could reduce workforce. Such an employer must ease workers to other jobs. Workers had enriched the owner. This duty required by the common Master of the workers and owners.

Would we say this today? Do we get mad at “the economy” when employers wipe their hands of unneeded workers?

How can you pay attention to your fellow creatures?

#christian #povertykiller #savethechildren #kindness #newcreation

Greg Johnson @[email protected] · 2024-09-07 · 09:43 UTC

Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, advises plant owners who improved tech and could reduce workforce. Such an employer must ease workers to other jobs. Workers had enriched the owner. This duty required by the common Master of the workers and owners.

Would we say this today? Do we get mad at “the economy” when employers wipe their hands of unneeded workers?

How can you pay attention to your fellow creatures?

#christian #povertykiller #savethechildren #kindness #newcreation

#newcreation #kindness #savethechildren #povertykiller #christian

Greg Johnson @[email protected] · 2024-09-07 · 09:43 UTC

Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, advises plant owners who improved tech and could reduce workforce. Such an employer must ease workers to other jobs. Workers had enriched the owner. This duty required by the common Master of the workers and owners.

Would we say this today? Do we get mad at “the economy” when employers wipe their hands of unneeded workers?

How can you pay attention to your fellow creatures?

#christian #povertykiller #savethechildren #kindness #newcreation

Medical Lake Community Church @[email protected] · 2024-05-28 · 17:13 UTC

Know yourself, know your purpose. In Ephesians 5, believers are transformed to testify God's grace. #NewCreation #LivingTestimony

#newcreation #livingtestimony

Medical Lake Community Church @[email protected] · 2024-05-28 · 17:07 UTC

We were once lost in sin, but now we are washed, sanctified, and justified in Christ. Don't go back to slavery. #NewCreation #Freedom

#newcreation #freedom

Debbie Forand @[email protected] · 2024-03-03 · 03:45 UTC

Check out a beautiful artwork titled "A Little Girl and Her Butterflies"! Explore this lovely piece on display at Debra Forand's online gallery. Witness the enchanting scene of a young girl surrounded by delicate butterflies. Experience the artist's new creation and get lost in the magical world she has crafted. https://debra-forand.pixels.com/featured/a-little-girl-and-her-butterflies-debra-forand.html?newartwork=true
#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

Debbie Forand @[email protected] · 2024-03-03 · 03:45 UTC

Check out a beautiful artwork titled "A Little Girl and Her Butterflies"! Explore this lovely piece on display at Debra Forand's online gallery. Witness the enchanting scene of a young girl surrounded by delicate butterflies. Experience the artist's new creation and get lost in the magical world she has crafted. https://debra-forand.pixels.com/featured/a-little-girl-and-her-butterflies-debra-forand.html?newartwork=true
#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

Debbie Forand @[email protected] · 2024-03-03 · 03:45 UTC

Check out a beautiful artwork titled "A Little Girl and Her Butterflies"! Explore this lovely piece on display at Debra Forand's online gallery. Witness the enchanting scene of a young girl surrounded by delicate butterflies. Experience the artist's new creation and get lost in the magical world she has crafted. https://debra-forand.pixels.com/featured/a-little-girl-and-her-butterflies-debra-forand.html?newartwork=true
#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

Debbie Forand @[email protected] · 2024-03-03 · 03:45 UTC

Check out a beautiful artwork titled "A Little Girl and Her Butterflies"! Explore this lovely piece on display at Debra Forand's online gallery. Witness the enchanting scene of a young girl surrounded by delicate butterflies. Experience the artist's new creation and get lost in the magical world she has crafted. https://debra-forand.pixels.com/featured/a-little-girl-and-her-butterflies-debra-forand.html?newartwork=true
#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

#newcreation #onlinegallery #butterflies #artwork

Debbie Forand @[email protected] · 2024-03-03 · 03:45 UTC

Check out a beautiful artwork titled "A Little Girl and Her Butterflies"! Explore this lovely piece on display at Debra Forand's online gallery. Witness the enchanting scene of a young girl surrounded by delicate butterflies. Experience the artist's new creation and get lost in the magical world she has crafted. https://debra-forand.pixels.com/featured/a-little-girl-and-her-butterflies-debra-forand.html?newartwork=true
#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

#artwork #butterflies #onlinegallery #newcreation

Lucky Resistor @[email protected] · 2024-02-21 · 21:49 UTC

Just launched a delightful new design: a tray with an enchanting engraved labyrinth pattern!

Dive into the maze of details here: https://www.printables.com/model/775239

Crafted to cater to all, these trays range in sizes from a cozy 100mm up to a generous 350mm, complemented by three choices of side thickness to ensure there's a perfect match for both small and large printers alike.

Dive into this labyrinthine adventure and let your prints take you on a journey!

#3DPrinting #Tray #Labyrinth #NewCreation

#3dprinting #tray #labyrinth #newcreation

Lucky Resistor @[email protected] · 2024-02-21 · 21:49 UTC

Just launched a delightful new design: a tray with an enchanting engraved labyrinth pattern!

Dive into the maze of details here: https://www.printables.com/model/775239

Crafted to cater to all, these trays range in sizes from a cozy 100mm up to a generous 350mm, complemented by three choices of side thickness to ensure there's a perfect match for both small and large printers alike.

Dive into this labyrinthine adventure and let your prints take you on a journey!

#3DPrinting #Tray #Labyrinth #NewCreation

#3dprinting #tray #labyrinth #newcreation

Lucky Resistor @[email protected] · 2024-02-21 · 21:49 UTC

Just launched a delightful new design: a tray with an enchanting engraved labyrinth pattern!

Dive into the maze of details here: https://www.printables.com/model/775239

Crafted to cater to all, these trays range in sizes from a cozy 100mm up to a generous 350mm, complemented by three choices of side thickness to ensure there's a perfect match for both small and large printers alike.

Dive into this labyrinthine adventure and let your prints take you on a journey!

#3DPrinting #Tray #Labyrinth #NewCreation

#3dprinting #tray #labyrinth #newcreation

Lucky Resistor @[email protected] · 2024-02-21 · 21:49 UTC

Just launched a delightful new design: a tray with an enchanting engraved labyrinth pattern!

Dive into the maze of details here: https://www.printables.com/model/775239

Crafted to cater to all, these trays range in sizes from a cozy 100mm up to a generous 350mm, complemented by three choices of side thickness to ensure there's a perfect match for both small and large printers alike.

Dive into this labyrinthine adventure and let your prints take you on a journey!

#3DPrinting #Tray #Labyrinth #NewCreation

#newcreation #labyrinth #tray #3dprinting

Lucky Resistor @[email protected] · 2024-02-21 · 21:49 UTC

Just launched a delightful new design: a tray with an enchanting engraved labyrinth pattern!

Dive into the maze of details here: https://www.printables.com/model/775239

Crafted to cater to all, these trays range in sizes from a cozy 100mm up to a generous 350mm, complemented by three choices of side thickness to ensure there's a perfect match for both small and large printers alike.

Dive into this labyrinthine adventure and let your prints take you on a journey!

#3DPrinting #Tray #Labyrinth #NewCreation

#3dprinting #tray #labyrinth #newcreation

Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven @[email protected] · 2016-02-09 · 13:44 UTC

When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

When we have found the Word of God and started reading the Bible with an open mind, letting the words come to us like they are written, it shall transform our inner self, if we allow it to do that.

When we do come into the faith, believing in One God and believing in His only begotten son, to be the sent one from God and the Messiah, our saviour, we shall have to take actions. We shall not be able to continue to live like we did before.

Faith demands action. Faith demands works.

We do know that there are lots of pastors who say contrary, but be aware that rabbi Jeshua taught his followers to be prudent and to be alert, doing the right things are otherwise they could miss the opportunity to enter God’s Kingdom.

It is true that we have received the free Gift of the Grace of God by the Blood of Christ. But it is not because we are giving a whitewashing of sins by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus, that we can do whatever we want. No. Once we come into the faith we shall have to do the works of faith. In case we do not do those works of the Law our faith shall be like a dead faith, not bringing us far.

When from our bible reading we got to see that Jesus is the Way and that we have to become one like he is one with God we shall have to work on ourselves to become like Jesus. It shall take many works to come in Christ and becoming “a new creation“. Than the old person has to be set aside and a new person has to take you over, like you are reborn in this system of things, you not any more being of the world but being of God.

Thanks to the sent one from God and God accepting Jesus his offering as a payment for sins, salvation has come over us. But when becoming a Christian we are at a new starting point, saved from the curse of death. This we have to keep so, which shall demand lots of works, keeping ourselves under control.

God reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Given a free way now we have to keep our good relationship with This Divine Creator and with His son. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them does not give us now a free way to continue sinning. God has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore we have to be Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. Jesus asked his disciples to go out into the world and to proclaim the Gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God. This is a very important work we do have to do. This we only can do properly when we live according to what we preach.

We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God and start doing the works of faith.

Let us have a look at what the Bible itself says about Faith and Works.

“17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {1} [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. {1) Or, there is [a new creation]} 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having {1} committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {1) Or [placed in us]}

20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20 ASV)

“3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more; 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; 12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-12 ASV)

“2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.” (James 1:2-10 ASV)

“12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:12-15 ASV)

“19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:19-27 ASV)

“1 My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?” (James 2:1-4 ASV)

“8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.

19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.

24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2:8-26 ASV)

“13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.” (James 3:13-18 ASV)

“1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?” (James 4:1-12 ASV)

“7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:7-10 ASV)

“12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” (James 5:12-16 ASV)

“19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:19-20 ASV)

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