2 Peter 1:9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed f...

1:9 AMP

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Amplified Bible - For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins.
新标点和合本 - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 没有这几样的人就是瞎眼，是短视，忘了他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 没有这几样的人就是瞎眼，是短视，忘了他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
当代译本 - 缺乏上述品质的人则是目光短浅，甚至瞎眼，忘记他从前的罪已经得到洁净。
圣经新译本 - 人若没有这几样，就是近视，简直是瞎眼的，忘记他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
中文标准译本 - 就是说，没有具备这些的就是瞎眼的，他只看得见眼前的，忘记自己过去的罪孽已经得了洁净。
现代标点和合本 - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本（拼音版） - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
New International Version - But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
New International Reader's Version - But what if these things don’t describe someone at all? Then that person can’t see very well. In fact, they are blind. They have forgotten that their past sins have been washed away.
English Standard Version - For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
New Living Translation - But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
Christian Standard Bible - The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.
New American Standard Bible - For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
New King James Version - For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
American Standard Version - For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
King James Version - But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
New English Translation - But concerning the one who lacks such things – he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.
World English Bible - For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
新標點和合本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是眼瞎，只看見近處的，忘了他舊日的罪已經得了潔淨。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 沒有這幾樣的人就是瞎眼，是短視，忘了他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 沒有這幾樣的人就是瞎眼，是短視，忘了他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
當代譯本 - 缺乏上述品質的人則是目光短淺，甚至瞎眼，忘記他從前的罪已經得到潔淨。
聖經新譯本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是近視，簡直是瞎眼的，忘記他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
呂振中譯本 - 誰若沒有這幾樣，誰就是瞎眼近視，忘了他往日的罪已得了潔淨。
中文標準譯本 - 就是說，沒有具備這些的就是瞎眼的，他只看得見眼前的，忘記自己過去的罪孽已經得了潔淨。
現代標點和合本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是眼瞎，只看見近處的，忘了他舊日的罪已經得了潔淨。
文理和合譯本 - 無此者則盲、僅視所近、已忘舊罪之潔、
文理委辦譯本 - 無此則盲於心、視不及遠、其受潔去舊罪、皆忘之矣、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 人若無此、則如目矇、視不及遠、忘其舊日之罪已潔、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 凡不具此等美德者、無異短視淺識之心盲、而自忘其舊罪已蒙滌除矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - En cambio, el que no las tiene es tan corto de vista que ya ni ve, y se olvida de que ha sido limpiado de sus antiguos pecados.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 이런 것을 갖추지 못한 사람은 앞 못 보는 소경이며 자기의 옛 죄가 깨끗해진 것을 잊어버린 사람입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car celui à qui elles font défaut est comme un aveugle, il ne voit pas clair. Il a oublié qu’il a été purifié de ses péchés d’autrefois.
リビングバイブル - しかし、これらのものを追い求めない人は、実を結ばない人です。そういう人は、神が正しい生活を送るようにと、過去の罪から救ってくださったことをすっかり忘れているのでしょうか。
Nestle Aland 28 - ᾧ γὰρ μὴ πάρεστιν ταῦτα, τυφλός ἐστιν μυωπάζων λήθην λαβὼν τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ᾧ γὰρ μὴ πάρεστιν ταῦτα, τυφλός ἐστιν μυωπάζων, λήθην λαβὼν τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν.
Nova Versão Internacional - Todavia, se alguém não as tem, está cego, só vê o que está perto, esquecendo-se da purificação dos seus antigos pecados.
Hoffnung für alle - Wer aber sein Leben nicht davon prägen lässt, der tappt wie ein Blinder im Dunkeln, denn er hat vergessen, dass er von seiner Schuld befreit wurde.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ai đi ngược lại hẳn là người mù lòa, nếu không cũng là cận thị, vì họ quên rằng Đức Chúa Trời giải cứu họ khỏi nếp sống cũ đầy tội lỗi cốt để họ sống cuộc đời mạnh mẽ, đức hạnh trong Ngài.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แต่ถ้าผู้ใดขาดคุณสมบัติเหล่านี้ก็ตาบอดตาสั้น และลืมว่าตนได้รับการทรงชำระจากบาปในอดีตแล้ว
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่คนที่ไม่มีคุณสมบัติเหล่านี้เป็นคนตาบอดตาสั้น และลืมว่าเขาได้รับการชำระล้างบาปที่ทำมาแต่ก่อน

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Revelation 3:17 - Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],
Luke 18:22 - When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “You still lack one thing; sell everything that you have and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”
John 9:40 - Some Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “Are we also blind?”
John 9:41 - Jesus said to them, “If you were blind [to spiritual things], you would have no sin [and would not be blamed for your unbelief]; but since you claim to have [spiritual] sight, [you have no excuse so] your sin and guilt remain.
2 Corinthians 4:3 - But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;
2 Corinthians 4:4 - among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Mark 10:21 - Looking at him, Jesus felt a love (high regard, compassion) for him, and He said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell all your property and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”
Galatians 5:6 - For [if we are] in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but only faith activated and expressed and working through love.
Galatians 5:13 - For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.
2 Peter 1:4 - For by these He has bestowed on us His precious and magnificent promises [of inexpressible value], so that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature.
2 Peter 1:5 - For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises, make every effort] in [exercising] your faith to, develop moral excellence, and in moral excellence, knowledge (insight, understanding),
2 Peter 1:6 - and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness,
2 Peter 1:7 - and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].
1 Peter 3:21 - Corresponding to that [rescue through the flood], baptism [which is an expression of a believer’s new life in Christ] now saves you, not by removing dirt from the body, but by an appeal to God for a good (clear) conscience, [demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 John 2:9 - The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
1 John 2:10 - The one who loves and unselfishly seeks the best for his [believing] brother lives in the Light, and in him there is no occasion for stumbling or offense [he does not hurt the cause of Christ or lead others to sin].
1 John 2:11 - But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
James 2:14 - What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]
James 2:15 - If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and lacks [enough] food for each day,
James 2:16 - and one of you says to them, “Go in peace [with my blessing], [keep] warm and feed yourselves,” but he does not give them the necessities for the body, what good does that do?
James 2:17 - So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].
James 2:18 - But someone may say, “You [claim to] have faith and I have [good] works; show me your [alleged] faith without the works [if you can], and I will show you my faith by my works [that is, by what I do].”
James 2:19 - You believe that God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror—they have seen His wrath]!
James 2:20 - But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?
James 2:21 - Was our father Abraham not [shown to be] justified by works [of obedience which expressed his faith] when he offered Isaac his son on the altar [as a sacrifice to God]?
James 2:22 - You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience].
James 2:23 - And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24 - You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith].
James 2:25 - In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew] spies as guests and protected them, and sent them away [to escape] by a different route?
James 2:26 - For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.
Romans 6:11 - Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship to it broken], but alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.
1 John 1:7 - but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].
Hebrews 9:14 - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal [Holy] Spirit willingly offered Himself unblemished [that is, without moral or spiritual imperfection as a sacrifice] to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever living God?
2 Peter 2:18 - For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.
2 Peter 2:19 - They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity—for by whatever anyone is defeated and overcome, to that [person, thing, philosophy, or concept] he is continually enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.
Titus 2:14 - who [willingly] gave Himself [to be crucified] on our behalf to redeem us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to purify for Himself a chosen and very special people to be His own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good.
Romans 6:1 - What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow?
Romans 6:2 - Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer?
Romans 6:3 - Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Romans 6:4 - We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways].
Ephesians 5:26 - so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],

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Amplified Bible - For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins.
新标点和合本 - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 没有这几样的人就是瞎眼，是短视，忘了他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 没有这几样的人就是瞎眼，是短视，忘了他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
当代译本 - 缺乏上述品质的人则是目光短浅，甚至瞎眼，忘记他从前的罪已经得到洁净。
圣经新译本 - 人若没有这几样，就是近视，简直是瞎眼的，忘记他过去的罪已经得了洁净。
中文标准译本 - 就是说，没有具备这些的就是瞎眼的，他只看得见眼前的，忘记自己过去的罪孽已经得了洁净。
现代标点和合本 - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
和合本（拼音版） - 人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
New International Version - But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
New International Reader's Version - But what if these things don’t describe someone at all? Then that person can’t see very well. In fact, they are blind. They have forgotten that their past sins have been washed away.
English Standard Version - For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
New Living Translation - But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
Christian Standard Bible - The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.
New American Standard Bible - For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
New King James Version - For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
American Standard Version - For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
King James Version - But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
New English Translation - But concerning the one who lacks such things – he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.
World English Bible - For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
新標點和合本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是眼瞎，只看見近處的，忘了他舊日的罪已經得了潔淨。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 沒有這幾樣的人就是瞎眼，是短視，忘了他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 沒有這幾樣的人就是瞎眼，是短視，忘了他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
當代譯本 - 缺乏上述品質的人則是目光短淺，甚至瞎眼，忘記他從前的罪已經得到潔淨。
聖經新譯本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是近視，簡直是瞎眼的，忘記他過去的罪已經得了潔淨。
呂振中譯本 - 誰若沒有這幾樣，誰就是瞎眼近視，忘了他往日的罪已得了潔淨。
中文標準譯本 - 就是說，沒有具備這些的就是瞎眼的，他只看得見眼前的，忘記自己過去的罪孽已經得了潔淨。
現代標點和合本 - 人若沒有這幾樣，就是眼瞎，只看見近處的，忘了他舊日的罪已經得了潔淨。
文理和合譯本 - 無此者則盲、僅視所近、已忘舊罪之潔、
文理委辦譯本 - 無此則盲於心、視不及遠、其受潔去舊罪、皆忘之矣、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 人若無此、則如目矇、視不及遠、忘其舊日之罪已潔、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 凡不具此等美德者、無異短視淺識之心盲、而自忘其舊罪已蒙滌除矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - En cambio, el que no las tiene es tan corto de vista que ya ni ve, y se olvida de que ha sido limpiado de sus antiguos pecados.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 이런 것을 갖추지 못한 사람은 앞 못 보는 소경이며 자기의 옛 죄가 깨끗해진 것을 잊어버린 사람입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - У кого же этих качеств нет, тот близорук и слеп и забыл об очищении от своих прошлых грехов.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car celui à qui elles font défaut est comme un aveugle, il ne voit pas clair. Il a oublié qu’il a été purifié de ses péchés d’autrefois.
リビングバイブル - しかし、これらのものを追い求めない人は、実を結ばない人です。そういう人は、神が正しい生活を送るようにと、過去の罪から救ってくださったことをすっかり忘れているのでしょうか。
Nestle Aland 28 - ᾧ γὰρ μὴ πάρεστιν ταῦτα, τυφλός ἐστιν μυωπάζων λήθην λαβὼν τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ᾧ γὰρ μὴ πάρεστιν ταῦτα, τυφλός ἐστιν μυωπάζων, λήθην λαβὼν τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν.
Nova Versão Internacional - Todavia, se alguém não as tem, está cego, só vê o que está perto, esquecendo-se da purificação dos seus antigos pecados.
Hoffnung für alle - Wer aber sein Leben nicht davon prägen lässt, der tappt wie ein Blinder im Dunkeln, denn er hat vergessen, dass er von seiner Schuld befreit wurde.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ai đi ngược lại hẳn là người mù lòa, nếu không cũng là cận thị, vì họ quên rằng Đức Chúa Trời giải cứu họ khỏi nếp sống cũ đầy tội lỗi cốt để họ sống cuộc đời mạnh mẽ, đức hạnh trong Ngài.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แต่ถ้าผู้ใดขาดคุณสมบัติเหล่านี้ก็ตาบอดตาสั้น และลืมว่าตนได้รับการทรงชำระจากบาปในอดีตแล้ว
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่คนที่ไม่มีคุณสมบัติเหล่านี้เป็นคนตาบอดตาสั้น และลืมว่าเขาได้รับการชำระล้างบาปที่ทำมาแต่ก่อน

Revelation 3:17 - Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],
Luke 18:22 - When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “You still lack one thing; sell everything that you have and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”
John 9:40 - Some Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “Are we also blind?”
John 9:41 - Jesus said to them, “If you were blind [to spiritual things], you would have no sin [and would not be blamed for your unbelief]; but since you claim to have [spiritual] sight, [you have no excuse so] your sin and guilt remain.
2 Corinthians 4:3 - But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;
2 Corinthians 4:4 - among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Mark 10:21 - Looking at him, Jesus felt a love (high regard, compassion) for him, and He said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell all your property and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”
Galatians 5:6 - For [if we are] in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but only faith activated and expressed and working through love.
Galatians 5:13 - For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.
2 Peter 1:4 - For by these He has bestowed on us His precious and magnificent promises [of inexpressible value], so that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature.
2 Peter 1:5 - For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises, make every effort] in [exercising] your faith to, develop moral excellence, and in moral excellence, knowledge (insight, understanding),
2 Peter 1:6 - and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness,
2 Peter 1:7 - and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].
1 Peter 3:21 - Corresponding to that [rescue through the flood], baptism [which is an expression of a believer’s new life in Christ] now saves you, not by removing dirt from the body, but by an appeal to God for a good (clear) conscience, [demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 John 2:9 - The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
1 John 2:10 - The one who loves and unselfishly seeks the best for his [believing] brother lives in the Light, and in him there is no occasion for stumbling or offense [he does not hurt the cause of Christ or lead others to sin].
1 John 2:11 - But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
James 2:14 - What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]
James 2:15 - If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and lacks [enough] food for each day,
James 2:16 - and one of you says to them, “Go in peace [with my blessing], [keep] warm and feed yourselves,” but he does not give them the necessities for the body, what good does that do?
James 2:17 - So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].
James 2:18 - But someone may say, “You [claim to] have faith and I have [good] works; show me your [alleged] faith without the works [if you can], and I will show you my faith by my works [that is, by what I do].”
James 2:19 - You believe that God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror—they have seen His wrath]!
James 2:20 - But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?
James 2:21 - Was our father Abraham not [shown to be] justified by works [of obedience which expressed his faith] when he offered Isaac his son on the altar [as a sacrifice to God]?
James 2:22 - You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience].
James 2:23 - And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24 - You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith].
James 2:25 - In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew] spies as guests and protected them, and sent them away [to escape] by a different route?
James 2:26 - For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.
Romans 6:11 - Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship to it broken], but alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.
1 John 1:7 - but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].
Hebrews 9:14 - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal [Holy] Spirit willingly offered Himself unblemished [that is, without moral or spiritual imperfection as a sacrifice] to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever living God?
2 Peter 2:18 - For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.
2 Peter 2:19 - They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity—for by whatever anyone is defeated and overcome, to that [person, thing, philosophy, or concept] he is continually enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.
Titus 2:14 - who [willingly] gave Himself [to be crucified] on our behalf to redeem us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to purify for Himself a chosen and very special people to be His own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good.
Romans 6:1 - What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow?
Romans 6:2 - Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer?
Romans 6:3 - Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Romans 6:4 - We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways].
Ephesians 5:26 - so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],