PRAGMATIC FAITH
NOTE: The views and denominational positions you may find in these links are not necessarily my persuasion. I have included them here so to stimulate thought and spirit on the subject matter in general:
He who embraces love embraces God and he who knows love knows God!....
And 1 Corinthians of the King James Version of the Bible:
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Chapter 13:
13:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become
as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing.
13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be
burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up,
13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil;
13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but
when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known.
13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
And Galatians of the King James Version of the Bible:
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Chapter 5:
5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage.
5:2
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
5:3
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are
fallen from grace.
5:5
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith
which worketh by love.
5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
5:8
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
5:9
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
5:10
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he
that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
5:11
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the
offence of the cross ceased.
5:12
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the
flesh, but by love serve one another.
5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are
contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before,
as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God.
5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
5:23
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
And Philippians of the King James Version of the Bible:
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Chapter 3: 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is
not grievous, but for you it is safe.
3:2
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3:3
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh.
3:4
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath
whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of
the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
3:6
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law,
blameless.
3:7
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung,
that I may win Christ,
3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
3:10
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
3:11
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I
may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
3:13
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
3:14
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise
minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
3:16
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind
the same thing.
3:17
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an
ensample.
3:18
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they
are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who mind earthly things.)
3:20
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ:
3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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