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Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
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77
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
78
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
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Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
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“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
81
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
82
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
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I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
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Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
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I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
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Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.