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For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

You are being guarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials

Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you.

Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,

For it stands in Scripture: