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NASB | Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 6:1 Therefore let us get past the elementary stage in the teachings about the Christ, advancing on to maturity and perfection and spiritual completeness, [doing this] without laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, |
Subject: What is a repentance from dead works? |
Bible Note: Hello Rowdy, "He has no needs whatsoever for He's God BUT we NEED to do them for our benefit." My Bible says differently. Rom 6:1-2 (ESV) What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? [2] By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Rom 6:15 (ESV) What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! "[W]orks is most certainly NOT the basis of salvation as the ONLY foundation for salvation MUST be Jesus Christ, He alone and the Grace of God, His Father and ours. I guess you might compare this Grace and our works as a marriage." This is double-speak. Marriage is bringing together two individuals to make "one flesh." By its use you are saying that works are absolutely necessary in order to be saved. As Tim has mentioned, works are the result and evidence, not the basis. Nor are they part of the basis. It's all of grace (as C.H. Spurgeon nicely put it). Steve |