TSK · James 1:25

The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,

I will be secure, for I seek your precepts.

A naive person will believe anything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like:

Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

The Fellowship of the Early Believers They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you– unless, indeed, you fail the test!

Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.