Love--Faith--hope--obedience--actions

[Jim_Baur]

Faith seems to need love and hope.

Also, I have carefully studied the Holy Bible.

I got the feeling, impression and thoughts that faith has many parts or aspects.

I believe from my reading of the Bible that faith includes actions or doings or works.

Also, faith includes obedience.

Faith includes the works of mercy, as far as I can discern.

Faith needs love to work, Gala 5: 6.

I am hoping that some of you great people will be able document these ideas.

I am hoping for passages that clear say faith does works, obeys, and works with love or charity. That faith needs charity.

THANKS

I do not have the time, energy or sanity to do this work.

This is not homework.

THANKS

 

[Catholic_Dude]

Just off the top of my head:

• Hebrews 11: 4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying f]about his gifts, and through g]faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, h]in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
• Hebrews 10: 35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
  38 but my righteous one shall live by faith,and if he shrinks back,
  my soul has no pleasure in him.”
  39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• John 3: 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
• Romans 10: 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved
• Romans 4: 18 In hope he [Abraham] believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrennessc] of Sarah’s womb. 20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”
• Galatians 3:9 those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham

 

[JRKH]

Paul clearly states in 1 Cor 13:1-13 that Love is above all and the root of all. Without Love we are nothing…of the three great virtues, the greatest is not faith…but Love.
Jesus tells us in Mt 22:36-40 that Love underpins all of the Law and the Prophets.
1 John 4:7-8 tells us that God IS Love…

So Faith itself needs to be grounded in and work from and through Love…
Works likewise must stem from Love for God and fellow man.
Obedience naturally follows Love…Not the obedience of master/servant…But the obedience of who so loves the other that they would never willingly choose to disappoint.

Love is Core…

Peace
James