Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,