_Hope That Does Not Put to Shame and Love Shed Abroad

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. —Romans 5:1-5 ...and hope does not put us to shame, ...

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_Matthew Chapter 1: Overview & Notes

Overview on the Gospel of Matthew This Gospel is traditionally known to be written by Matthew. Traditionally, because there isn't any direct attribution of the Gospel to Matthew. In other words there are no explicit evidences of signs of direct authorship, like a signature of any sort. The Gospel was written to the familiarity of it's audience wherein it needed no due introduction. And because of this fact, since there was no real need to state the name of the author, it seemed practical to understand the author to be someone in authority and/or popularity ...

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