james from 1 samuel 15

We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”

This is salvation in the deeper and more spiritual sense of the Old Testament. . . . But even in the religion of the Law, . . . obedience to the revealed will of Yahweh is recognized as the supreme en...

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.