Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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Genesis 15:6:
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
(NIV)
And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God). [Rom. 4:3, 18-22; Gal. 3:6; James 2:23.](AMP)
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
(KJV)
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If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
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If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
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Ezekiel 18:20:
The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
(NIV)
The soul that sins, it [is the one that] shall die. The son shall not bear and be punished for the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear and be punished for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him only, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon the wicked only.
(AMP)
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
(KJV)
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Romans 4:5:
However, to anyone who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
(NIV)
But to one who, not working [by the Law], trusts (believes fully) in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (the standing acceptable to God).
(AMP)
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
(KJV)
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