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94861 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jude, the Epistle of.58
… the faithful were to have mercy, were to convince them of their danger, show them the enormities to which the false system inevitably leads, and so win them …
94862 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judges, Book of.26
… their faithfulness to Yahweh ( Judges 8:27, 33 ).
94863 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judges, Book of.48
… of faithful records, because it is the history of God’s people, find their chief value in that they are and were designed to be admonitory, exhibiting the Divine …
94864 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judges, Period of.15
… a faithful picture of the times with which they deal. The Book of Ruth, which also refers to this period, is probably in its present form a later composition …
94865 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judges, Period of.28
… Mosaic faith as appear in the ephod of Gideon ( Judges 8:24 - 27 ), the images of Micah ( Judges 17:1 - 13 through Judges 18:1 - 31 ), and the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter …
94866 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judith, Book of.21
… when faithful to their God they were invincible, but that when they disobeyed Him they were easily overcome. Achior is for this saying expelled and handed …
94867 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Judith, Book of.25
… the faith of the Jews was sorely tried, and the writer’s dominant aim is identical with that of the author of Daniel, namely, to encourage those suffering for …
94868 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justice.11
… hath faith in Jesus" ( Romans 3:26 ). "He is faithful and righteous (or "just"; see the King James Version) to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness …
94869 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.9
(3) Faith, Not Works, the Means of Justification
94870 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.32
… by faith ( Galatians 3:24; see Ihmels in RE3,16,483-84). What made Paul to differ from his companions in the faith was that his own bitter experience under the …
94871 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.33
… their faith in Jesus as the Son of God. "The objective salvation," says Ritschl (p. 158), "which was connected with the sacrificial death of Christ and which continued …
94872 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.34
… to faith in the saving significance of His death, and not conversely. Accordingly, the assurance that God cannot condemn us is owing primarily to the death …
94873 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.35
(3) Faith, Not Works, the Means of Justification. The means or condition of justification is faith ( Romans 3:22, 25 - 26, 28, etc.) which rests upon the pure grace of God …
94874 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.36
… is faith. This does not mean that the crown of Christianity is not love, for it is ( 1 Corinthians 13:13 ); it means only that the root is faith. Nor can love be foisted …
94875 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.37
… ), "presupposes faith in Him as the one whom the church designates as Lord, and also binds to adherence to Him which excludes every dependence upon any other …
94876 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.42
… is faith which is so counted ( Romans 4:5; Philippians 3:9 ). That upon which God looks when He justifies is not the righteousness He has imparted or is to impart …
94877 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.43
… that faith is an individual matter, a thing first between man and his God, and only after a man has been united to Christ by faith can he enter into a spiritual …
94878 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.44
… through faith in Jesus Christ unto all that believe ( Romans 3:22 ), being justified freely, not through baptism, but through the redemption that is in Christ …
94879 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.46
… to faith, the humble heart and a hunger for righteousness (= faith). See Matthew 5:3, 6. He who brings most of himself, of his own pride and works, is the least likely …
94880 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.47
… by faith is not more implicit in John’s Gospel than in the first three; it is only more explicit ( John 3:14 - 16 ). Eternal life is the blessing secured, but this of …