The Christian life receives its strongest motive to God’s work through the person and redemptive act of Christ For we have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give […]
The apostle denies that any have rightly learned Christ, who have not been taught that they must put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on Christ (Eph 4:20ff). Their knowledge of Christ, then, is proved to be a […]
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. —Romans 12:2 Of this transformation, which Paul styles a renovation of […]
It is the duty of the faithful to “present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God;” and that in this consists the legitimate worship of him. Hence is deduced an argument for exhorting them: “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed […]
There is no other method of living piously and justly, than that of depending upon God. Commentary on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, 1:444. John Calvin