Study Desk

He never doubted that God would keep his promise, and he never stopped believing. He grew stronger in his faith and gave praise to God.

So, "God accepted Abraham's faith, and that faith made him right with God."

Those words ("God accepted Abraham's faith") were written not only for Abraham

Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who through our faith has brought us into that blessing of God's grace that we now enjoy. And we are happy because of the hope we have of sharing God's glory.

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

But this is what the Scripture says about being made right through faith: "Don't say to yourself, ‘Who will go up into heaven?'" (That means, "Who will go up to heaven and bring Christ down to earth?")

This is what the Scripture says: "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart." That is the teaching of faith that we are telling.

So faith comes from hearing the Good News, and people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

Because God has given me a special gift, I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think you are better than you are. You must decide what you really are by the amount of faith God has given you.

We all have different gifts, each of which came because of the grace God gave us. The person who has the gift of prophecy should use that gift in agreement with the faith.

Accept into your group someone who is weak in faith, and do not argue about opinions.

If you hurt your brother's or sister's faith because of something you eat, you are not really following the way of love. Do not destroy someone's faith by eating food he thinks is wrong, because Christ died for him.

We who are strong in faith should help the weak with their weaknesses, and not please only ourselves.

Let each of us please our neighbors for their good, to help them be stronger in faith.

Brothers and sisters, I ask you to look out for those who cause people to be against each other and who upset other people's faith. They are against the true teaching you learned, so stay away from them.

Glory to God who can make you strong in faith by the Good News that I tell people and by the message about Jesus Christ. The message about Christ is the secret that was hidden for long ages past but is now made known.