Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never …
Impartial Grace: 1 Corinthians 11
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks …
Impartial Grace: 1 Corinthians 5
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.(1 Corinthians 5:4-5, emphasis added) Paul …
Impartial Grace: 1 Corinthians 3
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. If any man’s work remains which he …
Impartial Grace: Romans 14
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand. (Romans 14:4, emphasis added) This is not a rhetorical question. It deserves an answer. Christian friends agree that no Christian should judge anyone anywhere at …
Impartial Grace: Romans 11
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? (Romans 11:15, emphasis added) It is the Jewish nation that rejected Christ Jesus. He came as their Messiah and they did not see it. Paul tells us that in this rejection there is …
Impartial Grace: Romans 8
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory …
Impartial Grace: Romans 5
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins …
Impartial Grace: Acts 3
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long …
Impartial Grace: John 19
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. (John 19:30, emphasis added) Concrete. Absolute. In Christ Jesus... “It is finished.”