The Passion Translation New Testament: With Psalms, Proverbs and Song of Songs (The Passion Translation)

by Brian Simmons

5So listen carefully,

8Your calling is to fulfill the royal law of loveg as given to us in this Scripture: “You must love and value your neighbor as you love and value yourself!”h

9But when you show prejudice you commit sin and you violate this royal law of love!

12So we must both speak and act in every respect like those who are destined to be tried by the perfect law of liberty,

17So then faith that doesn’t involve action is phony.k

do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony?

26For just as a human body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so faith without the expression of good works is dead!

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15Don’t set the affections of your heart on this worldq or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible.r

16For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importances—none of these things come from the Father but from the world. 17This worldt and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love tou do the will of God live forever.v