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They that support and endorse sin are not Christians: it is an easy thing to say they are Christians; but it is by their fruits they are known, not by how their tree appears to look.

Yes we do indeed live in a wolf world: unfortunately many which profess Christ are still behaving themselves as wolves, and not a sheep.

(2 Corinthians 10:5)

(2 Corinthians 10:5)

[for me anyway] we already do when we pray to the Lord to "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil": but of course we must also be believing for that which we pray, and not merely say it out of memory.

Because the body is not one member but many, and because one member cannot say to another that they have no need of them: therefore those members which seem for feeble are necessary, and member which are thought of as less honorable should be more honored, so that there be no schism, but the...

[for me anyway] the way that it is supposed to be is that we all speak the same things, and that there be no division among us, but that we be perfectly joined together in the same mind and the same judgment: but still until now everyone says, I am of catholic; I am of Protestant; I am of...

It is exactly the verse you've mentioned (1 Peter 1:7) "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." This is the sum of the matter of adversity...

Either way sin does not have dominion over us, but we volunteer to put our trust into the hands and power of sin; or else we repent ourselves and put our trust into the hands and power of God: to sin is voluntary, and likewise to repent is also voluntary, according as each person purposes it in...

Seeking to justify sin is to proceed from sin to sin: either you agree with God that sin is wrong, or else you will be as the world and seek to justify sin as somehow acceptable.