Grace & Salvation
The heart is the Saviour of the world. Heads do not save. Genius, brains, brilliancy, strength, natural gifts do not save. The gospel flows through hearts.
The law repels, the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm.
There are a great many people who don’t believe the glad tidings that peace has been made by Jesus Christ between God and man, but it is true.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
The gospel is not a list of duties to be performed, or feelings to be produced, or frames which we are to pray ourselves into, in order to make God think well of us, and in order to fit us for receiving pardon.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
He brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,”
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
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