"Obey my commands. Do not crossbreed domestic animals. Do not plant two kinds of seed in the same field. Do not wear clothes made of two kinds of material.

"You cannot be a slave of two masters; you will hate one and love the other; you will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

"No one patches up an old coat with a piece of new cloth, for the new patch will shrink and make an even bigger hole in the coat.

His choice is based on his grace, not on what they have done. For if God's choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.

We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.

I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ---in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.

But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind.

(SEE 1:7)

Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!