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So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead.

This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.

They are for you, who through faith are kept safe by God's power for the salvation which is ready to be revealed at the end of time.

Their purpose is to prove that your faith is genuine. Even gold, which can be destroyed, is tested by fire; and so your faith, which is much more precious than gold, must also be tested, so that it may endure. Then you will receive praise and glory and honor on the Day when Jesus Christ is revealed.

because you are receiving the salvation of your souls, which is the purpose of your faith in him.

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.

Be firm in your faith and resist him, because you know that other believers in all the world are going through the same kind of sufferings.

From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ— To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as precious as ours:

For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;

So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.

because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.

But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith. Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,

I know where you live, there where Satan has his throne. You are true to me, and you did not abandon your faith in me even during the time when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed there where Satan lives.

Whoever is meant to be captured will surely be captured; whoever is meant to be killed by the sword will surely be killed by the sword. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God's people."