The lawe of God is perfect, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of God is sure, and geueth wisdome vnto the simple.
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TSK · James 1:25
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Blessed are they that kepe his testimonies: they seke hym with their whole heart.
And I wyll walke in a large scope: for I seke thy commaundementes.
An ignorant body beleueth euery worde: but who so hath vnderstanding, loketh well to his goynges.
Whosoeuer commeth to me, & heareth my sayinges, and doth the same, I wyll shewe you to whom he is lyke.
Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleued on him: Yf ye continue in my word, then are ye my very disciples.
Yf ye knowe these thynges, happy are ye, yf ye do them.
And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and felowship, and in breakyng of bread, and in prayers.
Seyng therefore, that I haue obtayned helpe of God, I continue vnto this day, witnessyng both to small and to great, saying none other thynges, then those which the prophetes and Moyses dyd say shoulde come:
Wherfore the lawe is holy, and the commaundement holy, & iust and good.
For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father.
Therfore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmouable, alwayes riche in the worke of the Lorde, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.
Examine your selues, whether ye are in the fayth: Proue your owne selues. Knowe ye not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christe is in you? except ye be reprobates.
Stande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free, and be not intangled agayne with ye yoke of bondage.
Notwithstandyng through bearyng of chyldren she shalbe saued, yf they continue in fayth and loue, and holynesse, with modestie.
Takyng heede that no man fall away from the grace of God, lest any roote of bitternesse spryngyng vp, trouble you, and therby many be defyled.
So speake ye, and so do, as they that shalbe iudged by the lawe of libertie.
Let therfore abyde in you, that same whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng. If that whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng shall remayne in you, ye also shall continue in the sonne, and in the father.
Blessed are they that do his commaundementes, that their power may be in the tree of lyfe, and may enter in through the gates into the citie.