turning back
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6If we claim that we have fellowship with him, and yet we walk in darkness, then we are lying and not telling the truth.
10Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,
23Jesus responded and said to him: “If anyone loves me, he shall keep my word. And my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our dwelling place with him.
21And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1“If you go out to battle against your enemies, and you see horsemen and chariots, and that the multitude of your adversary’s army is greater than your own, you shall not fear them. For the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, is with you. 2Then, as the battle now draws near, the priest shall stand before the front ranks, and he shall speak to the people in this manner: 3‘Listen, O Israel! Today you engage in a battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart be overwhelmed with fear. Do not be apprehensive. Do not yield. You should have no dread of them. 4For the Lord your God is in your midst, and he will contend against your enemies on your behalf, so that he may rescue you from peril.’
6And so, you should convert to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and have hope in your God always.
14I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.
62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
1O senseless Galatians, who has so fascinated you that you would not obey the truth, even though Jesus Christ has been presented before your eyes, crucified among you? 2I wish to know only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3Are you so foolish that, though you began with the Spirit, you would now end with the flesh? 4Have you been suffering so much without a reason? If so, then it is in vain. 5Therefore, does he who distributes the Spirit to you, and who works miracles among you, act by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith? 6It is just as it was written: “Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.”
30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge each one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities, and then iniquity will not be your ruin.
10just as it was written: “There is no one who is just.
7Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice, 8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert, 9where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years. 10For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways. 11So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” 12Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God.
21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’