Study Desk

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

For they heard an awesome trumpet blast and a voice so terrible that they begged God to stop speaking.

Moses himself was so frightened at the sight that he said, "I am terrified and trembling."

This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain.

So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?"

So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your strength comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which don't help those who follow them.

So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood.

So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.

So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

So don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.

So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.

For the same God who said, "You must not commit adultery," also said, "You must not murder." So if you murder someone but do not commit adultery, you have still broken the law.

So whatever you say or whatever you do, remember that you will be judged by the law that sets you free.

So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: "Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith." He was even called the friend of God.

So you see, we are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.

Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.

And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it.

So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.