Practice always outweighs profession as a test of true faith

1 John 1:6

God has no fellowship with darkness

1 John 1:5

John's motivation - his joy, fulfilled through his audience's mutual participation in their fellowship with God and Christ

1 John 1:4

Severed fellowship restored through credible, first-hand prophetic and apostolic witness

1 John 1:3

The Word of Life manifested, witnessed, and proclaimed.

1 John 1:2

The Word of Life fully revealed to the Apostles

1 John 1:1

God acted for His own glory, not for our glory. We benefit, because God wanted to put the riches of His grace on display.

Ephesians 2:1-10

Who is there that does good?

Romans 2:9-10

Wrath and indignation to those who persevere in obeying unrighteousness

Romans 2:8

Eternal life to those who persevere in doing good

Romans 2:7

The just and righteous Judge, rendering just and righteous judgment

Romans 2:6

Why we shouldn't skip the bad news

Romans 2:5

The sin of presuming on God's mercy and grace

Romans 2:4

No one can escape the judgment of God, and everyone stands guilty before Him

Romans 2:3

And we know these things!

Romans 2:2

Self-condemnation - judging others while practicing the same things

Romans 2:1

Paul's Critique of Jewish Presumption

Romans 2:1-5

Those who give hearty approval to sinners

Romans 1:32

The unregenerate Gentiles - inventors of evil

Romans 1:29-31

Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.

Romans 1:29-31

Romans 1:28-31 - Paul's list of "social ills" - haters of God

Romans 1:29-31

God's abandonment to a depraved mind.

Romans 1:28

The men who suppress and reject God's revealed truth.

Romans 1:27

God's judgment on man's rejection of His revealed truth

Romans 1:26

Paul thanks God for Timothy's sincere faith.

2 Timothy 1:3-5

God's grace, mercy, and peace to Paul's beloved son Timothy.

2 Timothy 1:1-2

"The underlying emphasis of the book of Romans is that salvation produces total transformation." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 7:4-5

"If a criminal dies, he is no longer subject to prosecution and punishment, no matter how numerous and heinous his crimes may have been."

Romans 7:1-3

"In chapter 7 Paul expounds the second truth in verse 6:14, that believers are now under grace." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 7:1-6

"Only the Son of God could have paid the cost of salvation. But He calls His followers to pay the cost of discipleship" ~ John MacArthur

Romans 6:23

"Without exception, every person who trusts in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is freed from sin and enslaved to God." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 6:20-22

"God delivers men from enslavement to sin for the sole purpose of their becoming enslaved to Him and to His righteousness." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 6:19

"After genuine salvation a person will have the innate, Spirit-led desire to know and to obey God's truth." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 6:17-18

"The unsaved person is not free to do good or evil as he chooses. He is bound and enslaved to sin, and the only thing he can do is sin."

Romans 6:16

"A life that gives no evidence of moral and spiritual transformation gives no evidence of salvation." ~ John MacArthur

Romans 6:15