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The Good News: Look at stress as a blessing because it allows you to see your faith in God and learn perseverance to overcome challenges in the future. Woman's Day/Getty Images Luke 21:19
1 Timothy 5:8 – If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. James 2:26 – For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Reliance upon God is not mentioned, but is strongly implied in addition to helping one's ...
Glossa Ordinaria: Having forbid anxiety for the things of the day, He now forbids anxiety for future things, such a fruitless care as proceeds from the fault of men, in these words, Be not ye anxious about the morrow. [12] Jerome: To-morrow in Scripture signifies time future, as Jacob in Genesis says, To-morrow shall my righteousness hear me ...
These gifts are, I say—1st Of grace, both making grateful, such as faith, hope, charity, virginity, and all the other virtues, as well as those of grace given gratis—such as the power of working miracles, the Apostolate, the Priesthood, the gift of tongues, prophecy, etc. 2d Natural gifts, such as a keen intellect, a sound judgment, a sound ...
By the lilies also may be understood the Saints, who without the toil of legal ceremonies pleased God by faith alone; of whom it is said, My Beloved, who feedeth among the lilies. (Cant. 2:16.) Holy Church also is understood by the lilies, because of the whiteness of its faith, and the odour of its good conversation, of which it is said in the ...
For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. [9]The accounts of exemplary people were often used to motivate people, either to imitate noble attitudes or to avoid the pattern of ignoble behaviors, such as Ben Sira (teacher of wisdom form Jerusalem in 2nd century BC) uses a long hymn to praise notable Jewish ancestors (Sirach 44–51), or the author of 4 Macabee in 4 Macabee 16:16-23, and ...
This verse is the beginning of a tirade by John the Baptist. This lecture is also found in Luke, with this verse being very similar to Luke 3:7.This section is not found in Mark and most scholars believe that Matthew and Luke are both copying from the hypothetical Q.
"He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...