Chapter-15 The human tongue gets the fire from the hell to burn
We should live with a tongue controlled. The tongue is a small member yet it boasts of great exploits. A very small rudder in a ship can direct a big ship. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. No one can tame the tongue - a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. - James 3:3-9
Patience in times of sufferings
It is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. -1 Peter 2:19
The Lord is Risen-the goodness in suffering
It is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit. - 1 Peter 3:17 – 18
Suffering as a Christian
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ's sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed. If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you. - 1 Peter 4:12-14
Repay blessing for abuse
Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. - 1 Peter 3:9
The coming of the Lord - The end of the world - Our life in heaven
The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with aloud noise, and the elements (water, fire, earth, skies and the air) will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed. Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness. Waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire? But in accordance with his (God's) promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home. - 2 Peter 3:10-13
The Lord promises fullness of life to his people
Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace (fullness of life) to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts. - Psalm 85:8
The Lord has inscribed us on the palms of his hands
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. - Isaiah 49:16
St. John in his first letter writes eight times that we are born of God.
Getting away from Sin
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (God) a liar, and his word is not in us. - 1 John 1:8-10
Born of God
If you know that he (God) is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him. -1 John 2:29
Children of God
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. - 1 John 3:1
Those who are born of God do not commit sin
Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God's seed abides in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God. - 1 John 3:9
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
"Truly I tell you, whoever blasphemes against the
Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness,
but is guilty of an eternal sin" - Jesus. - Mark 3:29
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