Bea Encouraged-This Week’s Scriptures (july 1-July 5, 2025)

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~Hebrews 11:1-2 Amplified Version (AMP)~

1) Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses).

2) For by this [kind of] faith the [a] men of old gained [divine] approval.

[a] i.e. those men and women who were faithful to GOD before the old covenant and those faithful to GOD after its establishment, those mentioned in this chapter.

~James 2:14; 17; 26 AMP (Amplified Version)~

14) What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]

17) So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].

26) For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.

~Romans 10:17 Amplified Version (AMP)~

17) So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.

~Matthew 21:22 AMP (Amplified Version)~

22) And whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive.

~Hebrews 11:6 AMP (Amplified Version)~

6) But without faith it is impossible to [walk with God and] please Him, for whoever comes [near] to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He rewards those who [earnestly and diligently] seek Him.