Matthew 7:21
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21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,(A) but only the one who does the will(B) of my Father in heaven.(C)
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John 13:34-35
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34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love(A) one another.”
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John 15:12-17
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12 “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved(A) you. 13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life(B) for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master[a](C) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you.(D) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask(E) the Father in my name,(F) he will give you.(G)
17 “This is what I command you: Love one another.
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- 15:15 Or lord
James 1:22-25
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22 But(A) be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face[a] in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.(B)
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- 1:23 Or at his natural face
James 2:14-17
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Faith and Works
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?(A) 17 In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
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