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Many say we do not have to obey the Lord because we have grace, but GRACE IS GIVEN to those WHO LOVE THE LORD, and THOSE WHO LOVE HIM OBEY HIM. If you do not obey Him then you do not love Him or have grace.
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Ephesians 6:24
GRACE BE WITH ALL those WHO LOVE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH INCORRUPTIBLE LOVE.
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(Grace is given to those who love the Lord with incorruptible love, so that means grace is for those who obey the Lord because those who love Him, obey Him.)
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John 14:21
HE WHO HAS MY COMMANDMENTS and KEEPS THEM IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME; and he WHO LOVES ME WILL BE LOVED BY MY FATHER, AND I WILL LOVE him and will disclose Myself to him.”
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(Who loves Christ and who does not love Him?)
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John 14:23-24
Jesus answered and said to him, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, he WILL KEEP MY WORD; AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He WHO DOES NOT LOVE ME DOES NOT KEEP MY WORDS; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
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(Grace instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age.)
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Titus2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
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Romans 6:1-16
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
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For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
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and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
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Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
Many say we do not have to obey the Lord because we have grace, but GRACE IS GIVEN to those WHO LOVE THE LORD, and THOSE WHO LOVE HIM OBEY HIM. If you do not obey Him then you do not love Him or have grace.
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Ephesians 6:24
GRACE BE WITH ALL those WHO LOVE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH INCORRUPTIBLE LOVE.
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(Grace is given to those who love the Lord with incorruptible love, so that means grace is for those who obey the Lord because those who love Him, obey Him.)
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John 14:21
HE WHO HAS MY COMMANDMENTS and KEEPS THEM IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME; and he WHO LOVES ME WILL BE LOVED BY MY FATHER, AND I WILL LOVE him and will disclose Myself to him.”
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(Who loves Christ and who does not love Him?)
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John 14:23-24
Jesus answered and said to him, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, he WILL KEEP MY WORD; AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He WHO DOES NOT LOVE ME DOES NOT KEEP MY WORDS; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
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(Grace instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age.)
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Titus2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
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Romans 6:1-16
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
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For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
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and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
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Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
